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Researchers make broadband 3,500 times faster
Researchers at a Stanford University-affiliated research centre said last week they had found a way to send data across the Internet more than 3,500 times faster than the typical broadband connection.
Calgary Herald News Services
The technical breakthrough set an Internet speed record too fast to be of use with present-day computers, but could open the way for scientists to share and ship massive databases around the world, researchers said.
In a recent trial, a team of scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, California Institute of Technology, Dutch research institute NIKHES, and the University of Amsterdam sent the equivalent of four hours of DVD movies nearly 11,000 kilometres across fiber-optic lines in less than a minute.
The uncompressed data sped along at 923 megabits per second for 58 seconds from Sunnyvale, Calif., to Amsterdam via Chicago during the test.
Findings from the trial may be applied in networks over the next one to two years for scientists working in the data-rich field of particle physics, said Les Cottrell, assistant director of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’s computing services.
"People will no longer have to ship large planeloads of packages around the world," Cottrell said. "It brings to people’s attention that the way we do science today and the way we conduct business could change radically," he said. "Scientists will be able to really collaborate without ever having to leave their homes."
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