[LINK] Aussie Claims Copper Broadband now 200x Faster

[Richard Chirgwin]

Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> Aussie Claims Copper Broadband now 200x Faster
> Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 24, @08:45AM
> from the alarms-going-off-in-brain dept.
> http://slashdot.org/articles/07/10/24/1228200.shtml
>
> SkiifGeek writes
>
> "Winner of Melbourne University's Chancellor's Prize for Excellence, 
> Dr John Papandriopoulos could soon find himself the focus of a number 
> of networking companies and government agencies interested in wringing 
> more performance from existing network infrastructure.
>
> Dr John developed a set of algorithms (US and Aussie patents pending) 
> that reduce the impact of cross talk on data streams sharing the same 
> physical copper line, taking less than a year to achieve the 
> breakthrough.
>
> It is claimed that the algorithms can produce up to 200x improvement 
> over existing copper broadband performance (quoted as being between 
> one and 25 mbit/sec), with up to 200 mbit/sec apparently being 
> deliverable. If the mathematical theories are within even an order of 
> magnitude of the actual gains achieved, Dr John's work is likely to 
> have widespread implications for future bandwidth availability across 
> the globe."
>
The original Melbourne Uni release:
http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/articleid_4705.html

It would not hurt any of the local IT media to seek a direct interview, 
but I suppose that's not going to happen in a hurry...

RC