Technology
Optical Interconnects for Data Center Networking
Quick fact
A single optical fiber can carry data at speeds over 100 Gbps, and the light signals are so fast that components must be timed within picoseconds (trillionths of a second).
Why this is interesting
Your next YouTube video might travel from a data center to your screen using light pulses, not electricity. But how does a data center manage to send millions of messages at light speed?