Accessing Internet at 640 Gb/s?

[WA9UDW]

"University of Sydney physicists have developed an optical chip that could potentially improve ‘Internet speeds to up to 100 times faster than current Australia’s networks.’ According to the Sydney Morning Herald, these chalcogenide glass photonic chips will be very cheap to produce as they’re based on plain glass."

http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=977

 

Terry

[N3DRB The Derb]

as long as he rest of the net is limping along with copper connections to the house, it wont matter much to me or thee. it will matter big time to the routers and data centers that have fiber optic coming in the next few years.