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Superfast Internet Grid Under Construction

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Feb 5, 2007
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I did a search and browsed through the forum looking to see if this was posted previously; I didn't see it anywhere.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece

The internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.

At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.

The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call.
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It's an interesting article, but probably a little sensationalistic in its predictions.
 
So basically the article says that fiber-optic data transmission is faster than copper? That fiber-to-the-home is the way of the future?

Breakthrough! :rolleyes:

Still, I'll definitely look forward to faster internet. I still remember the exact day I first looked at my computer and realized that without an internet or phone (modem) connection, it was useless to me.
 
notjustjay said:
So basically the article says that fiber-optic data transmission is faster than copper? That fiber-to-the-home is the way of the future?

Breakthrough! :rolleyes:

Still, I'll definitely look forward to faster internet. I still remember the exact day I first looked at my computer and realized that without an internet or phone (modem) connection, it was useless to me.
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What makes this Fiber optics different than FiOs? That''s what I got now. Bigger Fiber optics?

Eh Phone modem, I'd die using a phone modem. I wouldn't be able to live w/o broadband.
 
SamIchi said:
What makes this Fiber optics different than FiOs? That''s what I got now. Bigger Fiber optics?

Eh Phone modem, I'd die using a phone modem. I wouldn't be able to live w/o broadband.
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In the end with FiOs it still has to run though the old copper wire system for the last part of the trip to your computer. Now if our computer where directly hook up to the fiber optics it could mean something different.

Also do not forget our computer still connect with modems routers and everything else over very VERY old technology.
 
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