Sometimes a headline catches your eye that makes you think the writer must have been half drunk when he wrote it. That's what I thought when I saw "Broadband to be Obsolete within a Decade." But then I kept reading.
The post at HighPosition.net describes "the Grid," which is the name of the network that was created to support the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, at the European Organization of Nuclear Research. (Otherwise known as CERN, for you Dan Brown fans.) The LHC produces massive amounts of data that would strangle average computer networks -- we're talking petabytes, here, or millions of gigabytes.
The Grid was designed with "super-fast" fiber optic cables that send research data to scientists all over the world at near instantaneous speeds. The network delivers data about 1,000 times faster than today's broadband services, according to HighPosition.net.
According to the CERN site, the Grid handles enough data to fill 100,000 DVDs a year. Now, that's a network I could get used to. No more bogging down when someone's using BitTorrent or streaming video. No more waiting for YouTube to load. I wonder where my service provider is on this network upgrade ...
We've talked about re-defining what broadband means. This blows those definitions out of the galaxy. However, could this truly be a reality in 10 years given today's market? It sure sounds like something fun to write about in the coming years.
What Is Beyond Broadband?
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April 18th, 2008
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