In the year 1977, Optical fibre was employed for telephonic communication for the first time today.
To avoid interference, the US government opted to connect the computers at NORAD's headquarters at Cheyenne Mountain using fibre optics. About 1.5 miles underneath downtown Chicago, the first optical telephone communication system was established. Each optical cable was capable of carrying 672 voice channels.
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