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Integrated photonics, says researchers at the University of Sydney, Australia, will be able to tackle the problem of bottleneck electronics in the age of high-speed, light-based transmissions. And after creating a system similar to the Internet, they proved that they could achieve speeds as fast as 60 times more than present day speeds.
At the Center for Ultra-High bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), nested under the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, researchers also unveiled that the technology will not cost more than what high Internet speeds cost customers today.
How is that possible, you ask? Well, they used a piece of scratched glass not bigger than your thumbnail.
Yeah, "WTF moment" right there. Let Professor Ben Eggleton, director of CUDOS, explain this bit:
The scratched glass we’ve developed is actually a Photonic Integrated Circuit. 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 times. We are talking about photonic technology that has terabit per second capacity.
Wow. Just wow. Like one reader pointed out, if you're to download a terabit (122,070,312.5 kilobits) using your own DSL or Cable connection, it'll take you 11 days to download the same amount. Those on dial up better give up while they can - 206 days to download that amount of info is just killer.
To prove the technology's efficiency, the specialists put up a system powered by electric switching, but still aided by the use of the photonic integrated circuits. Even with electronic switching involved, the system well achieved over 6000% overall speeds than the current high-speed Internet.
"This is a critical building block and a fundamental advance on what is already out there," said Eggleton, who also added, "We are talking about networks that are potentially up to 100 times faster without costing the consumer any more [than it would cost them today]."
Sweet golly, wow. More updates in the bleeding edge of technology as we get them. Oh and the image above is just a mock up - so don't think that's the actual piece of glass they talked about earlier.
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Only fellow Aussies would come up with a name like that.
im super stoked for this... i cant even imagine having my internet speeds up to 100x faster for the same cost.... Aussie's rule man. their proving that americas greedy azz that the aussie can step up to the plate to.
Lol Wasn't there porn jokes when the first major internet speed upgrade came out?
So if this were to be released, would there be a gigantic price tag for them to come to your house and set it up like with a FiOS line?
i dont understand how this works. its a chip... so where do you put it? is this replacing cables somehow? is it wireless? do you have to put it in your computer? ARG!
the article says that "The scratch will mean almost instantaneous, error free and unlimited access to the Internet anywhere in the world"
BUT HOW?!?!?!??