The group will be established in November by the government-affiliated National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and private companies, the leading business daily Nikkei said.<\/p>\n
It will aim to develop and commercialise in around 2015 a network that can transfer data at 10 gigabits per second, 10 times faster than the next-generation network due to be launched in Japan this year, the report said.<\/p>\n
The group will be joined by such companies as Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Fujitsu Ltd., KDDI Corp., Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp.<\/p>\n
It will spend some 30 billion yen (about 260 million dollars) on the research project over the next five years, the report said.<\/p>\n
Similar projects are already been under way in the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n
The optical network would allow as many as 100 billion devices to access it simultaneously and still enjoy extremely fast data-transfer speeds, the report said.<\/p>\n
Such features are important in the future when not only personal computers and mobile phones but also surveillance cameras, medical sensors and a range of other electronic devices are also likely to be connected to online networks.<\/p>\n
The technology would also offer stable, high-speed wireless access even on moving high-speed trains, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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