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100 times my current broadband speed? Yes please!

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Is it just me, or does this particular development have the potential to shake up more than just the internet?

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=594743
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Actually, that's all relative to Australian internet. Speeding that up by 100 times would still produce an end connection slower than broadband.
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While pure light switching technology is definitely needed on the internet, it does little or nothing for the consumer end of it. It can't directly speed up your cable or DSL because both are stuck using electrical signaling anyway. Your DSL or cable line would only show a difference from this technology by experiencing less internet congestion over a long distance transfer.

Current technology of having to convert light to electrical signals for switching and then back into light is the Achilles heel of the internet backbone connections.
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To say nothing of how or why providers will still regulate bandwidth up and make you pay a lot more to get higher up speeds. You can only d/l as fast as something is being uploaded. (of course)
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Something the providers are cheating a bit on is the fact that the internet as a swarm is only as fast as the sum of the connected upload speed. So no matter how many 10-30 mbit downloads you attach to the net, it will still be no faster than the 512 kbit uploads they offer.
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Krom wrote:Something the providers are cheating a bit on is the fact that the internet as a swarm is only as fast as the sum of the connected upload speed. So no matter how many 10-30 mbit downloads you attach to the net, it will still be no faster than the 512 kbit uploads they offer.
That would be true if there were only eyeball networks on the internet (which isn't the case).
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Got to love the acronym they have too. I bet they say it KOO-dose.

CUDOS
Centre for Ultra-high-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems
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