News tagged with network architecture

A cheap and fully optical solution for ultra-fast internet

Blisteringly fast Internet speeds, more robust connections and a big increase in network capacity at little extra cost, even in rural areas? It's the sort of fantasy that keeps telecommunication company executives and bandwidth-hungry ...

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

How the Internet architecture got its hourglass shape and what that means for the future

In the natural world, species that share the same ecosystem often compete for resources, resulting in the extinction of weaker competitors. A new computer model that describes the evolution of the Internet's ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Chinese supercomputer will feature The Godson-3B: A mesh style processor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chinese researchers expect to unveil the Dawning 6000 supercomputer in the third quarter of 2011. Unlike the previous versions of this supercomputer, the current version will be something very different when ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Bell Labs breaks optical transmission record, 100 Petabit per second kilometer barrier

Alcatel-Lucent today announced that scientists in Bell Labs, the company’s research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). ...

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (32) | comments 0

Data Travels Six Times Faster in the Clouds

(PhysOrg.com) -- The National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Chicago at Illinois established a cloud computing system that can quickly compile data from widely geographically distributed ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0