Of course, we aren’t satified at all with our current Internet speed. How we have always wished that we could have Internet that was 10 times or more faster than the current speed. But having such a high Internet speed the Telco would need to invest in expensive optical glass fiber cable. Optical glass fibers are not only expensive to implement, they’re also difficult to handle and connect due to their receptiveness to breakage.
Anyway, the research team headed by Hwang Seung-sang at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology seems to have brought us a good news i.e. after six years of experiment, they managed to have created something that sits between presently used copper wires and glass fibers, which is called ‘Plastic optical Fibers’.
Using ‘Plastic optical Fibers’ also allows the Internet at a speed of 2.5Gbps, which is 25 times more than the current 100 megabits per second delivered by copper. (Even the solution provided by Dr John Papandriopoulos that involves no change of physical cabling can only reach 250Mbps) The plastic optical fibers make bending much easier, which is flexible to implement over South Korea’s uniquely dense housing environment and home infrastructure, it can transmit 6,000 digital phones a second. Anyway, the date of commercialization is not yet decided. But I believe that the kind of cable would be expensive too when it first comes to the market.
via [Gizmowatch]
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