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September 28, 2018

RIP: Sir Charles Kuen Kao – Fiber Optic Pioneer

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding, Historic Tag ARM, bandwidth, BBC, Belgium, Cable, China, development, Fiber, George Smith, hong kong, IBM, itt, Mobile, recognition, research, rip, shared, Sir Charles Kao, standard, stc, stl, subsea, switzerland, UK, usa, Willard Boyle

This week marks the death of Sir Charles Kuen Kao, one of modern networking's pioneers. He died on Sunday 23 September 2018, aged 84. Born in Shanghai in 1933, Charles…