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Physicists at the University of Sydney have designed a switch that can make the Internet 60 times faster without costing the consumer anything extra.
It almost sounds too good to be true and when I first read about it on The Future of Things (TFOT) I thought: “Trust an Aussie scientist to come up with this bit of fluff, those guys need to get off that inflated island and join the real world!” But after reading up on it a bit, I may just have to swallow my words.
As a non-scientist it became even more bizarre, it appears all this can be done by using a small scratch on a piece of glass.
Best you read this one straight from TFOT:
“The scratched glass is actually a photonic integrated circuit that has the capacity to increase the slow rate of information carried by optical fibres.
Using photonic technology that has terabit per second speed, the circuit uses the scratch as a guide or a switching path for information. Similar to when trains are switched from one track to another, this switch takes only one picosecond to change tracks. Therefore in one second the switch is turning on and off about one million times.”
Additional information on the new scratch switches can be obtained at the University of Sydney’s website
If this technology eventually hits the open market I for one will pat these guys on the back and even apologise for the ‘inflated island’ jibe but only after they give me the Internet sixty times faster for no extra price .
It almost sounds too good to be true and when I first read about it on The Future of Things (TFOT) I thought: “Trust an Aussie scientist to come up with this bit of fluff, those guys need to get off that inflated island and join the real world!” But after reading up on it a bit, I may just have to swallow my words.
As a non-scientist it became even more bizarre, it appears all this can be done by using a small scratch on a piece of glass.
Best you read this one straight from TFOT:
“The scratched glass is actually a photonic integrated circuit that has the capacity to increase the slow rate of information carried by optical fibres.
Using photonic technology that has terabit per second speed, the circuit uses the scratch as a guide or a switching path for information. Similar to when trains are switched from one track to another, this switch takes only one picosecond to change tracks. Therefore in one second the switch is turning on and off about one million times.”
Additional information on the new scratch switches can be obtained at the University of Sydney’s website
If this technology eventually hits the open market I for one will pat these guys on the back and even apologise for the ‘inflated island’ jibe but only after they give me the Internet sixty times faster for no extra price .