Engineers feed fibre over iconic Forth Bridge to speed up internet for town
Scotland’s iconic Forth Road Bridge is having two miles of fibre installed across it to carry ultrafast internet traffic for the historic town which lies in its shadow. Engineers are using a giant air compressor to blow a continuous stretch of glass fibre right across the Bridge at speeds of up to 60 metres per […]
UK-backed research points towards unhackable comms
Researchers in Scotland and Germany have held the first quantum-secure conversation to take place between four parties, pointing towards unhackable future communications. The demonstration was led by researchers from the Quantum Communications Hub at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh with colleagues in Germany. The results are published in Science Advances. With the rise in connected vehicles […]
