New Tech Boosts Internet Speed?

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Lyla Katz reports of new technology that may further boost Internet use around the world. Will it be a boon to the industry, or a curse?

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology may have developed a way to eliminate the slowest component in the current Internet infrastructure, bumping speeds by as much as 100 to 1,000 fold.
The majority of high-bandwidth, high speed traffic is delivered along bundles of optical cables. These signals can go a long way, but periodically they come to an intersection and have to be redirected. It's hard to reroute light, so currently these require converting the signal back to an electric signal, rerouting, and finally converting back to an optical signal. All of this requires extra power and significant slows the internet down.

A team led by Vincent Chan, an electrical engineering and computer science professor at MIT, figured out an idea called "flow switching" and it sounds like common sense, but surprisingly hasn't widely been suggested or thought of before. ,p> The idea here would be to take heavy traffic zones and establish a one-way dedicated connection. For example, major cities like Chicago, Miami, New York City and Detroit might have a straight path to California's Silicon Valley. And Silicon Valley might have a straight path back to them. Without the need for major rerouting, the Internet would become dramatically faster and more energy efficient.

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