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Old 07-29-2008, 12:37 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Internet Speeds - 60 times faster


All with a piece of scratched glass too.



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It has taken four years to develop but now, due to a small scratch on a piece of glass, University of Sydney scientists say our Internet is set to become 60 times faster than current Telstra networks.

The scratch will mean almost instantaneous, error free and unlimited access to the Internet anywhere in the world,CUDOS (Centre for Ultra-high bandwith Devices for Optical Systems) announced today at the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC).

"This is a critical building block and a fundamental advance on what is already out there. We are talking about networks that are potentially up to 100 times faster without costing the consumer any more," says Federation Fellow Professor Ben Eggleton, Director of CUDOS, based within the School of Physics at the University of Sydney.

Eggleton, whose team beat their deadline by a year, says that up until now information has been moving at a slow rate but optical fibres have a huge capacity to deliver more. "The scratched glass we've developed is actually a Photonic Integrated Circuit," he says.

"This circuit uses the 'scratch' as a guide or a switching path for information - kind of like when trains are switched from one track to another - except this switch takes only one picosecond to change tracks. This means that in one second the switch is turning on and off about one million million times. We are talking about photonic technology that has terabit per second capacity."

This initial demonstration proves it is possible to achieve speeds 60 times faster than current Australian Networks. With further development, the process is likely to produce even faster results.

"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. Photonic technology delivers what's needed and, more importantly, what's wanted."

Based on a highly fruitful scientific collaboration between CUDOS teams at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University, with the Technical University of Denmark and supported with Australian Research Council (ARC) funding, CUDOS' research was presented in a paper delivered at the OECC today.
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Old 07-29-2008, 12:41 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Sweet, nice find
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Old 07-29-2008, 01:40 PM   #3 (permalink)
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woah,thats freakin sick.
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Old 07-29-2008, 01:45 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Old 07-29-2008, 02:12 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Very interesting read.
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If it works in the field and can deployed easily I relish the thought of having an internet 60 times faster than what I currently have.
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Old 07-29-2008, 02:49 PM   #7 (permalink)
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60 times faster than current lines, or current fiber optic lines?

The difference is still night and day, but isn't the problem already that it's too expensive?
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good find o.O lol
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Wow, 60 times faster, that's amazing.
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amazazing!
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then there should be no lag in games and wow image wow fast one could download a move... that intense...woooo
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Hmm.
If you were a torrent seeder. People would send you their babies because you uploaded so fast.
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just think of the data transfer possibilities, downloading entire movies in a second, re-uploading them in another. will the servers used to store data be able to keep up with that much of a speed increase?
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If you were a torrent seeder. People would send you their babies because you uploaded so fast.
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"We are talking about photonic technology that has terabit per second capacity."



Now it's not terabyte, but still, damn.
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"We are talking about photonic technology that has terabit per second capacity."



Now it's not terabyte, but still, damn.
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I mean i would be able to download my por... i mean antivirus software.. even faster
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Old 08-02-2008, 04:33 PM   #17 (permalink)
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SWEET! great news. ME WANT!

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wow with that speed i dont think anything's impossible now... but what about firewall and anti viruses? how are they gonna scan 1 terabyte of stuff per second?
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I really doubt it, that would require zettabytes of storage.


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will the servers used to store data be able to keep up with that much of a speed increase?
I really don't think this will ever happen. They don't mention any deployment prices.
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