China has made a major breakthrough in the study of visible light communication (VLC) key technologies, which increases the communication speed to 50Gbps, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
The new technology will enable Internet users to download a high-definition film in 0.2 second. China's IT expert Wu Jiangxing said there is a global lighting network that comprises 44 billion lamps, which can be used to create a huge VLC network by integrating with other equipment.
In the future, every lamp can become a hotspot of high speed network in the future. The VLC technologies will provide Internet plus action plan a solution for cheap access, break the predicament of lacking radio frequency resources, and create a strategic emerging industry as large as over one trillion yuan, he added.
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