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Montana State University licensing fiber optic invention to help advance fiber networks to homes and businesses.

Fiber optic communications may be what traditional phone companies might use, but the technology is far too expensive for the average consumer, right?

Maybe not. A new invention from Montana State University http://www.montana.edu/wwwvr/index.html , now being patented, may help advance fiber networks to homes and businesses.

"When people talk of fiber optic communication links, they are usually thinking of high-speed data and often very expensive equipment," one inventor, MSU electrical engineering professor Richard Wolff, wrote in a recent e-mail.

But Wolff and co-inventor and graduate student Yanchang Dong have developed a way to use existing high-speed communication links to send additional low-speed data with very little additional cost or complexity.

The invention could result in advancing fiber networks to homes and businesses.

"As fiber optic networks become more widely deployed, this technique will become increasingly valuable," Wolff wrote. "Fiber communications networks are now widely used for long distance links, but as demand for high data rates by end users rises, there is increased interest in extending fiber links all the way to the customer premises."

MSU is now licensing the invention that would create secondary channels on such networks. Interested companies have until Nov. 18 to respond to the MSU Technology Transfer Office at (406) 994-7868 or e-mail [email protected].

Full Story: http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=2953

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