I recall the earlier story, basically a prototype/proof of concept. I
suspect this
was a formal write-up. A popularized account is here.
This online article was interesting in that the Comments
included more than one response by Bo Thidé, a principal researcher who worked
at implementation for four years. However all I could gather about the
resulting capacity was that "4 channels" were demonstrated, with speculation
that up to 11 channels would be "economically feasible".
The new
announcement is given some historical perspective in this "newsy" IOP webpage. The experiments don't seem to be
apple-to-apple comparisons since Thidé et al worked with "low-frequency" radio
waves and Alan Willner's USC team is using laser pulses.
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