smh.com.au— Australian scientists believe they are on the verge of a breakthrough in optical circuitry that may improve the speed of the internet by a factor of 1000.
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Missleading title.It's not faster, it's higher bandwidth.Faster means lower latency, and it is impossible to have it 1K times faster, because the speed of light is finite.
Right. But... (maybe I'm being thick-headed here) If your looking at transfering data, why do we have to limit ourselves to ones and zeros? Why not have a third or fourth dimension that would add another level of information with only one more flash of light? This is then interpreted back to being switches. (I think) an example of a four-bit coding would be DNA, no?What is modulation? This?
I meant that the one more flash of light is the green. It could also be a sequence of flashes that mean something. I guess I am just grasping at straws, trying to come up with a very basic compression formula.I realize too, that the processor would probably take more time turning the information given by the green into machine code than it actually sending the raw code.
Sorry let me edit my prev. statement... QPSK works off of Phase shift and how far out of phase the freq. is, not amplitude and freq. but I think I just created a new type of modulation, I'll call it "FAM" but the same pricipal applys.
Period 1. A period of pure agony for a female, lasting way too long. Signs of this state include screaming at anything that moves, rolling around on the couch in pain, and spending hours with cold water and stain remover.2. A useful thing that ends a scentence, that does not exist for most l337 people.1. "PERIODS ARE EBIL!!! EEEEBILLL!!!"2. "Use a period for once, goddamnit."
The funny thing is even if a Australian scientist invented it or the breakthrough or whatever, we will probaly be one of the last to use the technology ='(And title is misleading since Fibre internet is techincally already the speed of light since it uses light pulses to send data.
Actually, the funniest thing is that the Australian scientists will have to take it offshore to develop it properly. In Australia we breed these remarkable people who can't get money for brilliant things from a single one of the suited gorillas and grey suburban accountants who rule the country.Teh noes indeed.
Satellite internet has the speed of light most of the way. It just travels much farther than most internet signals, out to geosynchronous orbit and back (52,400 miles round trip).
To whoever said most of Australia is on 56ks, even if it's true, the people on 56k's are grandmothers or people who don't even use the internet, and to whoever said that they didn't realise people took Australian scientist seriously, Australian scientist have done alot for science and technology, infact two scientist won a noble prize this last year? Or this year or whatever, anyway point being Australians are just like any of you, the only problem with us is as someone else mentioned, the money.
radu79May 8, 2006
Missleading title.It's not faster, it's higher bandwidth.Faster means lower latency, and it is impossible to have it 1K times faster, because the speed of light is finite.
kysleMay 9, 2006
Right. But... (maybe I'm being thick-headed here) If your looking at transfering data, why do we have to limit ourselves to ones and zeros? Why not have a third or fourth dimension that would add another level of information with only one more flash of light? This is then interpreted back to being switches. (I think) an example of a four-bit coding would be DNA, no?What is modulation? This?
kysleMay 9, 2006
I meant that the one more flash of light is the green. It could also be a sequence of flashes that mean something. I guess I am just grasping at straws, trying to come up with a very basic compression formula.I realize too, that the processor would probably take more time turning the information given by the green into machine code than it actually sending the raw code.
iboxMay 9, 2006
Sorry let me edit my prev. statement... QPSK works off of Phase shift and how far out of phase the freq. is, not amplitude and freq. but I think I just created a new type of modulation, I'll call it "FAM" but the same pricipal applys.
ub3rgeekMay 9, 2006
This is all great and dandy but who is going to pay for the reconstruction of the internet backbone thats allready in place?
kazsymondsMay 9, 2006
Period 1. A period of pure agony for a female, lasting way too long. Signs of this state include screaming at anything that moves, rolling around on the couch in pain, and spending hours with cold water and stain remover.2. A useful thing that ends a scentence, that does not exist for most l337 people.1. "PERIODS ARE EBIL!!! EEEEBILLL!!!"2. "Use a period for once, goddamnit."
grimreeperMay 9, 2006
The funny thing is even if a Australian scientist invented it or the breakthrough or whatever, we will probaly be one of the last to use the technology ='(And title is misleading since Fibre internet is techincally already the speed of light since it uses light pulses to send data.
Closed AccountMay 9, 2006
Actually, the funniest thing is that the Australian scientists will have to take it offshore to develop it properly. In Australia we breed these remarkable people who can't get money for brilliant things from a single one of the suited gorillas and grey suburban accountants who rule the country.Teh noes indeed.
icedragonMay 9, 2006
That would be a real breakthrough.These days, everything is about "more speed", "more performance" and "more storage".Can't wait until the year 2020.
keng6May 9, 2006
Satellite internet has the speed of light most of the way. It just travels much farther than most internet signals, out to geosynchronous orbit and back (52,400 miles round trip).
ardent11May 10, 2006
To whoever said most of Australia is on 56ks, even if it's true, the people on 56k's are grandmothers or people who don't even use the internet, and to whoever said that they didn't realise people took Australian scientist seriously, Australian scientist have done alot for science and technology, infact two scientist won a noble prize this last year? Or this year or whatever, anyway point being Australians are just like any of you, the only problem with us is as someone else mentioned, the money.