{"id":160029,"date":"2026-11-10T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=160029"},"modified":"2026-11-10T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T13:00:28","slug":"data-link-trial-chinese-team-finds-hollow-core-fibre-cuts-lag-30-across-1000km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=160029","title":{"rendered":"Data link trial: Chinese team finds hollow-core fibre cuts lag 30% across 1,000km"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLight travels through conventional optical fibres at about 200,000km per second \u2013 about two-thirds the speed it travels in a vacuum \u2013 because the signals are passing through solid glass.<br \/>\nWhen vast amounts of data are exchanged between computing centres hundreds or thousands of kilometres apart, this difference amounts to a substantial delay.<br \/>\nNow, Chinese researchers have unveiled optical fibre that replaces the solid glass core with air, cutting the data transmission delay by about 30 per cent&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3373956\/data-link-trial-chinese-team-finds-hollow-core-fibre-cuts-lag-30-across-1000km\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLight travels through conventional optical fibres at about 200,000km per second \u2013 about two-thirds the speed it travels in a vacuum \u2013 because the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}