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Even if you've got 100Mbps broadband... it's slow compared to this new technology.
Remember the funky sound your modem used to make back in the dial-up days? Each different tone had a specific data meaning. By sending and reading them quickly your Modulator-Demodulator (modem)could send staggering amounts of data - it could download a 1 megabyte document in as little as 18 earth minutes.
That was about the max permissible on an old copper phone line, so cue the digital upgrades. With DSL (or ADSL) you could convert these 'tones' to a digital blockup the bit-rate (number of bits of data per second) massively. 20 MEGA-bits per second isn't an unusual figure for the broadband companies to quote - and that blows your copper dialup away. At its theoretical maximum this could get you that 1Mb PDF in just under a second.
That's pretty quick - now you can stream movies, send all your holiday pics to your gran, become a mobile blogger... instantly.
Well, everyone likes a boffin (according to the internet) and now gonk-central has created a new technique called Orthoganol Frequency Multiplexing.
It's suprisingly simple, too. Instead of 'tones' it uses lights generated by a remarkably low-power set of miniscule lasers. You send the pulses down a fibre optic cable and collect them at the other end with another set of clever mini-laser-things.
Clever geek-science takes place and your light signals are converted back to bits. Because light travels in a straight line (the usual exceptions apply to what light thinks is a straight line) the data could be sent anywhere you like - providing that Cpt Picard's head doesn't get in the way and reflect it into someone's eyes. Researchers already had this running pretty quickly, now they've applied a linear Fourier decoder to read the signals depending on the time at which light arrives compared to a reference pulse. They probably had that lying around.
A lack of girlfriends has allowed the team to calculate how much data this system could transfer. Thought your 1Mb PDF in just-under-a-second was fast? This system could move 26 TERA bytes in that time. That's how big the whole Library of Congress is. The whole thing. In a second.
This system could be fitted to onboard chips, wide area comms networks, basically to any device network that's physically cabled - whatever the size. Unless you read some very technical magazines you saw it here first.
This is, without any doubt, the future.
TenEightyOne
Remember the funky sound your modem used to make back in the dial-up days? Each different tone had a specific data meaning. By sending and reading them quickly your Modulator-Demodulator (modem)could send staggering amounts of data - it could download a 1 megabyte document in as little as 18 earth minutes.
That was about the max permissible on an old copper phone line, so cue the digital upgrades. With DSL (or ADSL) you could convert these 'tones' to a digital blockup the bit-rate (number of bits of data per second) massively. 20 MEGA-bits per second isn't an unusual figure for the broadband companies to quote - and that blows your copper dialup away. At its theoretical maximum this could get you that 1Mb PDF in just under a second.
That's pretty quick - now you can stream movies, send all your holiday pics to your gran, become a mobile blogger... instantly.
Well, everyone likes a boffin (according to the internet) and now gonk-central has created a new technique called Orthoganol Frequency Multiplexing.
It's suprisingly simple, too. Instead of 'tones' it uses lights generated by a remarkably low-power set of miniscule lasers. You send the pulses down a fibre optic cable and collect them at the other end with another set of clever mini-laser-things.
Clever geek-science takes place and your light signals are converted back to bits. Because light travels in a straight line (the usual exceptions apply to what light thinks is a straight line) the data could be sent anywhere you like - providing that Cpt Picard's head doesn't get in the way and reflect it into someone's eyes. Researchers already had this running pretty quickly, now they've applied a linear Fourier decoder to read the signals depending on the time at which light arrives compared to a reference pulse. They probably had that lying around.
A lack of girlfriends has allowed the team to calculate how much data this system could transfer. Thought your 1Mb PDF in just-under-a-second was fast? This system could move 26 TERA bytes in that time. That's how big the whole Library of Congress is. The whole thing. In a second.
This system could be fitted to onboard chips, wide area comms networks, basically to any device network that's physically cabled - whatever the size. Unless you read some very technical magazines you saw it here first.
This is, without any doubt, the future.
TenEightyOne
