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Historical Timeline

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Over the past 80 years, the Bell Labs R&D community has made seminal scientific discoveries, created powerful new technologies, and built the world's most advanced and reliable networks. Explore the links below to learn more about our heritage.

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Current 1990s 1980s 1970s 1960s 1950s 1940s 1930s Before 1930
Browse Current 107Gbps Ethernet Base Station Router Bell Labs' Network Security Model Named ISO Standard 100GB Ethernet Transmission IMS Service Enablement Layer Magnetometer protoype with mPhase Technologies SmartPON Bell Labs Security Model Adopted as X.805 Nano-based Battery Nanograss Bell Labs' 30,000th Patent Deep Sea Sponge Discovery Novel Semiconductor Laser Broad Spectrum Laser New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium (NJNC) New Long-Distance Transmission Record First All-Silicon Wireless Receivers Smart Antenna Technology (BLAST) SuperHLR Theoretical Limits of Optical Communications
Cosmic Dark Matter First DNA Motors First Flexible Electronic Ink Display First Triple-Terabit Long-Distance Data Transmission Lucent Speech Server Neuromorphic Engineering New Material for Plastic Circuits Progressive Geometry Compression Algorithm Super-fast Quantum Algorithm
generic - data and optical 107Gbps Ethernet
2006: Bell Labs reports the first optical transport of electronically multiplexed 107 Gigabit per second (Gbps) data.
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