Tackling Africa’s digital divide
Tackling Africa’s digital divide, Published online: 26 April 2018; doi:10.1038/s41566-018-0162-z
Innovations in ‘sustainable’ photonics technologies such as free-space optical links and solar-powered equipment provide developing countries with new cost-effective opportunities for deploying future-proof telecommunication networks.
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Martin P. J. Lavery; Mojtaba Mansour Abadi; Ralf Bauer; Gilberto Brambilla; Ling Cheng; Mitchell A. Cox; Angela Dudley; Andrew D. Ellis; Nicolas K. Fontaine; Anthony E. Kelly; Christoph Marquardt; Selaelo Matlhane; Bienvenu Ndagano; Francesco Petruccione; Radan Slavík; Filippo Romanato; Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán; Filippus S. Roux; Kobus Roux; Jian Wang; Andrew Forbes |
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Nature Photonics
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12 |
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5 |
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2018 |
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249 |
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10.1038/s41566-018-0162-z
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26-Apr-2018 |