[LINK] faster network

[Richard Chirgwin]

(My self promotion: Dr Eggleton of CUDOS is my interviewee for 
Thurdsay's podcast)

But.

While I love the technology, I really hate the dill-brained reporting. 
Could any journalist learn the difference between something designed for 
the "big pipe" backbone network and something designed for the consumer 
Internet, and keep that distinction?

Really cool science, though ...

Cheers,
Richard Chirgwin
www.itradio.com.au/networking
(Last week was fellower Linker Paul Brooks)

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> from: Fwd: Slattery's Watch - 14th July, 2008
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>> 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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