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10Gbit to the Home by 2010
womby writes "Nihon Keizai Shinbun report (Japanese) that NTT, Fujitsu and the Japanese Government are forming a working group to develop internet technologies that will hopefully allow homes to receve 10 gigabit internet connections by 2010.
'The Japanese government (the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunication) are going to start a development plan next year that will increase the speed of the internet in Japan to 100 times faster than the current 100MB fibre internet, with partner companies it is aiming for completion by 2010.' A complete Translation is here, if my blog gets beaten into the ground try the Coral Cache Link."
'The Japanese government (the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunication) are going to start a development plan next year that will increase the speed of the internet in Japan to 100 times faster than the current 100MB fibre internet, with partner companies it is aiming for completion by 2010.' A complete Translation is here, if my blog gets beaten into the ground try the Coral Cache Link."
to tweak and squeeze pre-existing technology to its absolute boundaries (fiber optics in this case) until something new and revolutionary arrives from the West.
I can only hope a Western scientist, in the next 10 years, scientifically (but more likely serendipitously) stumbles upon something revolutionary and far reaching, espically if we want to extend such speads to our rural areas...
It should be mentioned that the reason that they are trying this in Japan is a result of the slanty eyes. By limiting vertical peripheral vision, less text can be viewed on the screen at once. Therefore, text appears to be hitting the screen more quickly.
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