German Technology outfit Siemens claims to have set a new speed record for electrical processing of data through a fibre-optic cable.

Siemens has managed to process data using exclusively electrical means at 107 gigabits per second on a 100 mile-long US network.

The 107 gigabit speed is 2.5 times faster than a previous maximum transmission performance record.

Siemens told Reuters that the technique used electrical processing only and removed the need to split signals into multiple, lower data-rate signals to avoid bottlenecks which makes transmission slower and more expensive.

This news article was written on December 21, 2006, quoting The Inquirer.