> Next, each of these channels was split into 223 data chunks that existed in individual slices of the electromagnetic spectrum.
As someone who's naive about fiber-optic communications, I'm very surprised that this was not already happening. Is it that the idea is new, or that it's just recently become possible/practical?
As someone who's naive about fiber-optic communications, I'm very surprised that this was not already happening. Is it that the idea is new, or that it's just recently become possible/practical?
EDIT: It looks like the idea itself goes back to at least 1980: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4102348