Huge amounts of data are moving around us at any given moment, allowing us to stream and download music, videos and games and to stay continuously connected to one another.
It can be easy to take for granted the technology at our fingertips and to forget that it requires an immense network of undersea and landline optical fibre communications systems with complex sources, amplifiers and receivers, and even satellites in orbit, to make it all possible.
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Given that almost every aspect of modern life is reliant on internet access, it’s vital that our global internet infrastructure can withstand future challenges from intentional sabotage to natural disasters. In this talk, one of the great pioneers in optical communication networks, Professor Dame Polina Bayvel FRS, will explain the risks to the global infrastructure we depend on, and what must be done to future-proof it.
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