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Second-generation Internet: 10,000 times faster than broadband

Posted April 7, 2008

Blogger’s Note: A new, faster, second-generation Internet will be making your broadband hook-up obsolete in five years… says this TimesOnline article.

by Jonathan Leake

Baltimore — (TFN): The Internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.

At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.

The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call.

Read on…

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