New technology to replace internet protocol
AFP
TOKYO: A research group will be set up in Japan to
develop optical technology that will replace the
Internet Protocol as the global standard in
communications,
a report said on Sunday.
The group will be established in November by the
government-affiliated National Institute of
Information and Communications Technology and private
companies,
the leading business daily Nikkei said. It will aim to
develop and commercialise in around 2015 a network
that can transfer data at 10 gigabits per second,
10 times faster than the next-generation network due
to be launched in Japan this year, the report said.
The group will be joined by such companies as Nippon
Telegraph and Telephone, Fujitsu, KDDI, Hitachi,
Toshiba and NEC. It will spend some 30 billion yen
(260 million dollars) on the research project over the
next five years, the report said. Similar projects are
already been under way in the US and Europe.
The optical network would allow as many as 100 billion
devices to access it simultaneously and still enjoy
extremely fast data-transfer speeds, the report
said. Such features are important in the future when
not only personal computers and mobile phones but also
surveillance cameras, medical sensors and a
range of other electronic devices are also likely to
be connected to online networks. The technology would
also offer stable, high-speed wireless access
even on moving high-speed trains, the report said.
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