Programmable multicore optical fibres set to keep movies and music streaming into late 2020s

The volume of data traffic traversing the world's optical fibre networks is growing by more than 40 percent per year as data-hungry services like streaming audio and video become ever more popular. So that future networks have the capacity to cope with this ever-swelling traffic, and also handle emerging applications that will boost it still more--from connected cars to mobile HD video and the Internet of Things--the technologies that power long-haul optical networks are going to need a major up...