“The idea is to get more parts of the system working closer to the speed of light, without involving the ‘slow’ processing of electronic semiconductors. ‘We’re going from millions of personal computers and billions of smartphones to tens of billions of devices, with and without people, and that is the early phase of all this,’ said Larry Smarr, drector of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, located inside the University of California, San Diego. ‘A gigabit a second was fast in commercial networks. Now we’re at one hundred gigabits a second. A terabit a second will come and go. A petabit a second will come and go.’ In other words, Smarr thinks commercial networks will eventually be 10,000 times as fast as today’s best systems.’”
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 21:20:59 +0000
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