Over the past two decades, the Internet has entered almost every home. And if at the dawn of its use the speed of information transfer was negligible, now it is constantly growing. A real breakthrough in this area was the discovery of a new technology that increases speed by 3,000 times.
The latest wireless ultra-high-speed Internet technology was provided by physicists from Israel and the United States in a project development report. According to them, the new communication channel will provide users with the ability to download music, Blu-Ray movies or other information, which takes up a fairly large volume, in just one second.
Scientists from Tel Aviv universities and the American Aerospace Agency (NASA) of Southern California worked on the project. As it became known from their reports, the highest rate of data transfer using the new technology will be two and a half terabits per second. In simpler terms and translate it into gigabytes, it turns out that this speed will be equal to 320 GB per second. This is the size of seven films recorded in standard Blu-Ray quality, forty-five films on a dual-layer disc, or seventy films on an ordinary DVD-5.
Alan Willner, one of the inventors, also noted that the new technology has one drawback: the maximum distance that a signal can propagate in the atmosphere is equal to a kilometer. However, this will make it possible to provide Internet to areas located in remote mountainous areas.
Moreover, the absence of signal scattering in a vacuum will allow the new technology to be applied in the space industry. This will make it possible for the orbital stations to maintain contact with each other over an almost unlimited distance.
Tel Aviv University professor Moshe Thor said that technology is not the limit in terms of information transfer speed. The technology is based on the use of not one, as is customary, but several carrier waves at once. Now their number is equal to eight, but theoretically they can be increased to one hundred and to a thousand, while increasing the throughput of such a communication channel.
