Aussie science to make net 100 times faster

by Erik Larson | August 19, 2008 at 09:23 pm

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Considering the number of otherwise credible sources that have reported on this, it would seem it's not a hoax, and if it works should end big telco's profit and greed-driven and already debunked fear-mongering about a coming "internet clog"

COMPUTER users frustrated by slow internet connections could soon be surfing the web 100 times faster, all thanks to new Australian technology.

University of Sydney scientists say they have developed a new technology that could speed up the internet - and not cost users an extra cent.

Described as "a small scratch on a piece of glass'', the university's photonic integrated circuit boosts the performance of traditional optic fibres, Professor Ben Eggleton said.

"This circuit uses the 'scratch' as a guide or a switching a path for information - kind of like when trains are switched from one track to another - except this switch takes one picosecond to change tracks,'' Prof Eggleton said of the technology developed over the past four years.