Good news for those of you joining us with begrudging, intermittent connections to the world through a screen. American researchers have discovered a way to increase the speed of Australia’s global long-haul fibre Internet links, which could allow for increased operating speeds of 400 giga bites per second, four times faster than what was previously thought possible using the cables which currently service Australia’s Internet without the need for new ones within the next three years.
According to a report in Nature Photonics journal (via The ABC), scientists who no doubt excelled in bicarbonate soda volcano projects circa the 80s have formulated a way to enhance the efficiency of submarine Internet cables through “reducing the distortions known as non-linearities” in the signals, allowing for increased user capacity and affordability. This is being considered something of a breakthrough with significant implications given Australia’s well-documented and politically contentious need for speed; that, and the latest Hilltop Hoods song.
Dr Xiang Lu, who lead the research team at Bell Labs, said that, “With this performance enhancement we think we can further improve the connectivity between continents.”
And with that, greater connectivity to that basement in Wisconsin you’ll all quietly borrow Game of Thrones from next Monday.
via The ABC
