Experts from the Land Down Under, Australia, claim to have developed a new technology that will apparently revolutionize web-surfing for the internet users. They say that the technology is capable of making ‘web surfing’ a 100 times faster, than what it is right now.
The technology, the experts say, makes use of ‘a small scratch on a piece of glass’, to enhance the performance given by traditional fibre-optic media. Initial tests have concluded that the technology has achieved speeds 60 times faster than the current Telstra network. At the core of this technology lies, quite literally, a scratch on a piece of glass.
Professor Ben Eggleton, from the University of Sydney, said:
This circuit uses the “scratch” as a guide or a switching a path for information kind of like when trains are switched from one track to another – except this switch takes one pico second to change tracks,
He further added that:
This means that in one second the switch is turning on and off about one million times. Currently we use electronics for our switching and that has been OK, but as we move toward a more tech-savvy future there is a demand for instant web gratification,
One huge advantage of this technology, the scientists believe, is that the technology is unlikely to cost anything to the consumer. This is better than what is currently used on a mass scale. If implemented correctly and effectively in the bandwidth-deprived countries such as India, this would surely result in more and more exposure to the vast amount of information available on the World Wide Web.
Ankit Adds: The current Internet is the first generation of the Internet. As many experts have discussed at various point, in terms of Internet speeds, we are at a point where the world was at the time of the black-and-white television. Much higher communication speeds are possible. The processing power is not a bottleneck for this, the networks are. As time passes and we move to using mroe optic fibre and new developmenst taking places, teh speeds will be drastically improving. The nirvana will be the advent of Quantum Computing. Let’s see when these developments come out of teh research labs and make our digital lives zoom.
if this technology will be apply in daily life it will bring a big revolution in in daily life and the life will begin and end with Internet.
Well I guess the biggest consumer of this technology is India and China…I hope this comes to India befor 2010 and before organizations move to IPV6 standards.
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have a look at this guys: “Comcast offers super-fast Internet speeds” –> http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0220330820080403
Its all happening!!!