Photonic breakthrough could mean 60x faster internet speeds
By Darren Murph 
posted July 16th 2008 10:01AM
posted July 16th 2008 10:01AM
Every so often, we get wind of some new "breakthrough" from a few guys / gals in a lab that promises to simply revolutionize the web. A team from the University of Sydney is the latest bunch to do so, claiming that a piece of scratched glass (or a Photonic Integrated Circuit, if we're being proper) could enable internet speeds 60 times faster than "current Australian networks." Essentially, the "circuit uses the scratch as a guide or a switching path for information," and the resulting product is "photonic technology that has terabit per second capacity." Call us when you folks get everything ironed out -- we'll be over at Sigbritt Löthberg's house.[Via The Future of Things, thanks iddo]
A lot of carriers in the US don't even support 10Mb yet. They drag their feet to squeeze every cent out of us. We'll see 100Mb by 2050... maybe.
instead of "we get wind of some new "breakthrough"" why dont you just say- "they break wind to us?"
"I've developed a program which will allow you to download porn 1 MILLION times faster!"
"Porn one million times faster.... arrrglglglglglgl"
Well I get 6Mbps. I can't immagine i need much more than this. as soon as i type something in it is on my screen. When download stuff i never have to wait more than 30 seconds. There is only so much bandwidth out there, everyone can't have it all.