Photonic Switching to Boost Internet Speeds

Da Massive writes "Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed technology that could boost the throughput of existing networks 100-fold without costing the consumer any more, and it's all thanks to a scratch on a piece of glass. After four years of development, University of Sydney scientists say the Internet is set to become, on average, 60 times faster than existing networks. According to the Centre for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) at the University's School of Physics, the scratch will mean almost instantaneous, error-free and unlimited access to the Internet anywhere in the world."

Comments

Without costing the consumer any more?

[neokushan]

Ha! The technology might not cost much more, but ISP's will milk consumers for all they're worth.

The Scratch

[Anonymous Coward]

I love it how in these news snippets there is never any explanation of the technology, but long descriptions about the wonderful changes it will do to the world.

Re:The Scratch

[BiggerIsBetter]

I love it how in these news snippets there is never any explanation of the technology, but long descriptions about the wonderful changes it will do to the world.

Back in my day we didn't call it a "news snippet", we called it a "press release".

Re:Speed

[Rob Kaper]

Not just that last mile is a bottleneck. For the majority of services (even and sometimes especially the popular ones) there are also severe bottlenecks on the hosting end, many of which have nothing to do with bandwidth and/or latency.

If any of the hops between (inclusive) you and the service has any capacity/speed problem, you'll notice it.