Capacity Crunch
Facing the Information Blast
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It is said that the telecommunication system using the internet will collapse in 2020. What does that mean?
We are now at the era where we can send not only audios and texts but photos and movies instantly. If a human desire on demanding conveniences continues to expand at this rate, the infrastructure will reach its limit and the telecommunication facility will face stoppage: this is the “Capacity Crunch”.
In the last 30 years the modern society has demanded “more information in much faster rate”. How did the researchers back then overcome the capacity crunch, and how will they do so in the future?
We will focus on the secret stories of the world’s finest level of Japanese researchers who devotes to the development of advanced optical transmission technology.