I wonder if these folks ever heard the expression "speed kills"? If
we're data overloaded now, try the 10 gig files!
Steve
*MIT Researchers Promise an Internet That's 100x Faster and Cheaper*
SHARON GAUDIN - PC World
http://www.pcworld.com/article/200262/MIT_Researchers_Promise_an_Internet_That_100x_Faster_and_Cheaper.html?tk=rss_news
MIT researchers have developed technology that they say not only will
make the Internet 100 to 1,000 times faster, but also could make
high-speed data access a lot cheaper.
The trick to such dramatic performance gains lies within routers that
direct traffic on the Internet, according to Vincent Chan , an
electrical engineering and computer science professor at MIT, who led
the research team. Chan told Computerworld that replacing electrical
signals inside the routers with faster optical signals would make the
Internet 100, if not 1,000 times faster, while also reducing the amount
of energy it consumes.
What would the Internet be like if it ran that much faster?
Today, a user who has a hard time downloading a 100MB file would be able
to easily send a 10GB file, with the Internet running 100 times faster,
according to Chan.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/200262/MIT_Researchers_Promise_an_Internet_That_100x_Faster_and_Cheaper.html?tk=rss_news
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