European scientists in the Horizon 2020 funded consortium TERIPHIC ( TERabit optical transceivers based on InP EML arrays and a Polymer Host platform for optical InterConnects) are using photonics to develop a low emission, 1.6 terabyte-per-second speed internet that will reduce power consumption by 50 percent per Gb/s.
Aiming to surpass current ‘gold' standards of 400GB per second, TERIPHIC transeiver modules are expected to cost €0.3 per Gigabyte per second.
The three year, €5.6 million TERIPHIC project will operate until December 2021 and has received a grant of €4.7 million from the European Commission via the Photonics PPP.