News tagged with fiber optic internet

Olympics to strain UK Internet infrastructure

(AP) -- As Usain Bolt races down the Olympic track, will London's Internet infrastructure be able to keep up? Let's hope so. Experts say the network should be able to cope - but they warned of sluggishness ...

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UN sets stage for blazing fast new mobile devices

(AP) -- A United Nations telecom meeting has approved the next generation of mobile technology, which experts say will make devices 500 times faster than 3G smartphones and eliminate the wait time between the tap of a finger ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Streaming to overtake cable in 3-5 years: Netflix

Internet-streamed video will overtake cable to dominate home video viewing within three to five years, Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings predicted Tuesday, with stiffer competition to come.

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 8

Brazil proposes South American broadband network

Brazil on Tuesday proposed the creation of a fiber optic broadband connection network linking all South American countries to bring down the cost of Internet and cellular phone access.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Cuba says US behind illegal wireless networks

Cuba accused the United States on Monday of enabling illegal Internet connections in its territory and said several people were arrested in April for profiting from the wireless networks.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Coming soon to a server near you: fewer internet delays

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the UA-led Center for Integrated Access Networks, the largest optical research center in the U.S., are developing methods to improve transmission speed, efficiency and reliability ...

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Physicists take steps toward delivering quantum information to the home

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, fiber optics technology transports information in the form of classical data to homes and businesses. But researchers are currently working on ways to combine quantum data with the ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (50) | comments 4 | with audio podcast feature

Kansas City, Kansas, wins Google broadband nod

Google announced on Wednesday that Kansas City, Kansas, had been selected as the site for its first super-fast broadband Internet network.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 6

Team achieves one terabit per second data rate on a single integrated photonic chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- With worldwide Internet data traffic increasing by 50 percent each year, telecommunications companies that handle this digital torrent must be able to economically expand the capacities of their networks ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Cuban asks Obama, Google chief for free Internet

Cuban folk star Silvio Rodriguez urged US President Barack Obama and Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Monday to provide free Internet to developing countries.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Physicists break color barrier for sending, receiving photons

University of Oregon scientists have invented a method to change the color of single photons in a fiber optic cable. The laser-tweaked feat could be a quantum step forward for transferring and receiving high ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

US cities vie to win Google's broadband favor

A city in Kansas renamed itself "Google." A Florida mayor hopped into a tank full of sharks to impress the Internet titan. Baltimore named a "Google Czar" and scores of towns held "Google Days."

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The Internet comes to you across the bottom of the ocean

The Internet brings you data from around the world almost instantly. This information, coming from Geneva or Tokyo or Buenos Aires, arrives in the U.S. not from satellite but along cables that sit on the bottom ...

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 24, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Will high-density PICs be the next big thing?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lasers have the potential to improve and revolutionize human lives in many ways, from consumer electronics and communications to medical equipment and homeland security. Helping unlock the ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Carrier Pigeon Faster Than Broadband Internet

(PhysOrg.com) -- In South Africa, a carrier pigeon carrying a 4GB memory stick proved to be faster than the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom. Winston the pigeon took one hour and eight ...

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 7 weblog