6 hours ago · China
Data link trial: Chinese team finds hollow-core fibre cuts lag 30% across 1,000km
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a general story. South China Morning Post Asia is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to China. The first report grouped here was at 10 Nov 2026, 13:00 UTC. The headline in use is “Data link trial: Chinese team finds hollow-core fibre cuts lag 30% across 1,000km”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Light travels through conventional optical fibres at about 200,000km per second – about two-thirds the speed it travels in a vacuum – because the signals are passing through solid glass. When vast amounts of data are exchanged between computing centres hundreds or thousands of kilometres apart, this difference amounts to…
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- First reported by South China Morning Post Asia
Data link trial: Chinese team finds hollow-core fibre cuts lag 30% across 1,000km
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