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BIC-TCP 6,000 Times Quicker Than DSL
An anonymous reader writes "North Carolina researchers have developed an Internet protocol, subsequently tested and affirmed by Stanford, that hums along at speeds roughly 6,000 times that of DSL. The system, called BIC-TCP, beat out competing protocols from Caltech, University College London and others. The results were announced at IEEE's annual communications confab in Hong Kong." Update: 03/16 04:46 GMT by T : ScienceBlog suggests this alternate link while their site is down.
Bandwidth in reality is alreay cheap, there are protocols that are being used by the likes of cisco that make a 56k modem faster than broadband. Why is it not being implimented? The broadband companies need to make the money back from the investment in their infrastructure. Why upgrade to a 512k broadband connection if your modem can go faster? no need. It will be interesting to see when these actual protocols hit the market.
In answer to above the DSL protocol is the way in which your line is utalised to incorprate digital signals down a standard telephone wire. see here for more info
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oh please, 6000 times faster might be what you say to some unknowing muppet you're trying to sell a modem to, but this is slashdot, we expect nothing more than bit rate, modulation type and SNR & bandwidth requirements without having to click on the /.'ed article.
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This article is probably published by Al Gore who, after inventing the Internet, still works on optimizing the speed of many protocols that he came up with back in the day.