Japan and EU Commit 18m Euro To Develop 100Gbps Internet Access

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 4, 2013 @09:03AM from the just-lay-the-euros-end-to-end dept.

Mark.JUK writes "The European Union and Japan have unveiled a joint investment of 18 million Euros that aims to build more efficient fibre optic broadband networks that are '5000 times faster than today's average European broadband ISP speed (100Gbps compared to 19.7Mbps).' The funding will go towards supporting six research projects, which range from an effort to enable fibre optic networks at more than 100Gbps (aka – STRAUSS), to investigating new ways of ensuring efficient use of energy in information networks (aka — GreenICN). Faster than 100Gbps fibre optic links already exist but the new research could potentially help to bring these closer to homes. Some ISPs already offer 1Gbps+ connections to home users; not so long ago everybody was still stuck on a 50Kbps dialup link or slower."

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Re:Hey by GoodNewsJimDotCom · 2013-07-04 09:17 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm not even on the Internet.

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Re:Hey by fisted · 2013-07-04 09:17 · Score: 4, Funny

*smoke* *smoke* you *smoke*

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Re:Of course by jones_supa · 2013-07-04 09:45 · Score: 2, Funny

Why do yanks have so crappy Internet connections? They are a superpower after all.