2023/11/16
Keio University
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
Keio University (President: Kohei Itoh) and Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (President: Hideya Moridaira) have installed hollow-core fiber optic cables at the Keio Future Photonic Network Open Lab on Keio University's Shin-Kawasaki Town Campus (K2) and have begun experiments on an ultra-low latency network campus connecting multiple buildings. This was conducted as part of the "Research and Development of Advanced Optical Transmission Technology for a Green Society" project by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. This marks the completion of the world's first facility where engineers from both inside and outside Keio University can experiment with hollow-core fiber in a near-practical environment.
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