Researchers at UCL have developed and tested new hardware that promises to cut the cost of delivering fibre-to-the-home broadband technology. The team believes the technology will help address the challenges presented by providing homes with high bandwidths while future-proofing infrastructure against growing demand for data. Core optical fibre networks often terminate in cabinets far from end users. The so-called 'last mile' that connects households to the Internet via the cabinet is still often built with copper cables as the optical receiver needed to read fibre-optic signals is too expensive to have in every home.
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