A team at the University College London say they have broken the broadband speed record with a mind-boggling 178 terabits per second transmission. That’s fast enough to download the entire 100TB Netflix catalog in about 4 seconds.
DARPA is working on an airborne wireless network that can drive data bandwidth at fiber-optic network speeds – a blazing 100 gigabits per second. The effort, called the 100 Gigabit-per-second RF Backbone (aka 100G), seeks to do more than just overcome the physics that limit current radio-based data connections. The 100G initiative is searching for…
Real world tests of Google’s Fiber project, a high-speed ISP network installed in Kansas City, are beginning to arrive and the results are outstanding. Kansas City Google Fiber users can expect 700 Mbps down on hard-wired connections. One user reported that he BitTorrented Ubuntu in only 2 minutes. When will it arrive in your neighborhood?
Akamai, who operate one of the world’s largest distributed-computing platforms, monitors global Internet conditions around the clock. With this real-time data they identify the global regions with the greatest attack traffic, cities with the slowest Web connections (latency), and geographic areas with the most Web traffic (traffic density). It does this with a network of…
For many years, Iran has proposed a parallel, but private, Internet for its citizens. This private Internet is referred to as “halal”. Halal would provide Iranians a secure, and controlled Internet experience, one that promotes good Islamic moral values, while restricting access to the outside world. Collin Anderson, independent security analyst, has found evidence that…
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