[LINK] faster network

[Jan Whitaker]

from: Fwd: Slattery's Watch - 14th July, 2008


>University of Sydney breaks the Internet’s glass ceiling
><http://slattery.slatteryit.com.au/rp//118/process.clsp?t=22A45E2B3D3BE7D1039F8B45D53069334>According 
>to the University of Sydney scientists, the 
>Internet is set to become 60 times faster than 
>current Telstra networks due to a scratch on a 
>small piece of glass. CUDOS (Centre for 
>Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical 
>Systems) say the scratched glass is actually a 
>Photonic Integrated Circuit, which uses the 
>‘scratch’ as a guide or a switching path for 
>information – similar to when trains are 
>switched from one track to another – except this 
>switch only takes one picosecond to change 
>tracks (meaning that in one second the switch is 
>turning on and off about one million times). The 
>research is a collaboration between CUDOS teams 
>at the University of Sydney and the Australian 
>National University with the Technical 
>University of Denmark and supported with Australian Research Council funding.


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