Chip may speed up internet 100 times

[zatoicchi]

A TECHNOLOGICAL breakthrough by University of Sydney scientists could lead to people downloading the latest movie in a few seconds or chatting with small, cheap, video systems.

The physicists have developed a revolutionary optical chip that could improve internet speeds to up to 100 times faster than Australia's networks.

"The most exciting thing is that it is just a piece of scratched glass. It is very simple, so it is potentially cheap," said Ben Eggleton, the director of the university's Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, CUDOS.

He said the thumbnail-sized device could be commercialised within five years and used in countries such as Japan, which is "way ahead of Australia" in installing high speed fibre networks.

"As they build the next generation of networks, they're going to be looking for new breakthrough technologies."

Chip may speed up internet 100 times (http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/chip-may-speed-up-internet-100-times/2008/07/09/1215282974808.html)

[anon]

the idea is good :top: hope stuff like this that would make a real difference in how we see the iNet world doesn't stall development as it happens most of the time :/

[Aurion]

woow, "...chip that could improve internet speeds to up to 100 times faster than Australia's networks." damn,I didnt know that Australia's Networks are the best around !! Anyway,by the invention of Fiber Optics,the definition of Internet Speeds was penetrated beyond man's dreams (which IMO a revolutionary technological swing)

[anon]

Anyway,by the invention of Fiber Optics,the definition of Internet Speeds was penetrated beyond man's dreams (which IMO a revolutionary technological swing)

and just 10 years ago (give or take some yrs.) having a 2mbit connection was an extreme rarity and there were few servers with enough upload to max out your throughput :biggrin:

[Aurion]

yeah but not 10 years lets say 8 years or so since its a time based priorities in terms of releasing new speeds !! now if you took a look,there is speeds upto 1GB/1GB (for Universities/Large Firms/Banks ...etc).Technology is way faster than ever man,its the market competition to provide more better services every time time passes by

[zatoicchi]

I think Israel came up with something similar a few years ago. Can't recall exactly how it worked but sounds pretty close...

[Aurion]

I think Israel came up with something similar a few years ago. Can't recall exactly how it worked but sounds pretty close...

I think they wont release such technology that easy or that fast into the market since lots of hackers/crackers would love to have this piece of glass :tongue:

[anon]

since lots of hackers/crackers would love to have this piece of glass :tongue:

i think everybody would :tongue: no more your connection slowing down when you're in a rush and need to finish some work...

[Aurion]

yeah for sure,it would be awesome to have that piece of art into the market but believe me they cant validate this product since they are already suffering from Illegal Piracy remember :tongue: