New Technology Could Make the Internet 100x Faster

A group of Australian scientists at the University of Sydney have developed a new technology that could hopefully one day speed the Internet up without costing a dime. They use photonic integrated circuit boosts instead of fiber optic cables which can guide data in one picosecond, which the researchers describe as “a small scratch on a piece of glass.”

The main issue with the claim of hoping to speed up existing networks is the fact that ISPs have a much slower data backbone, and there is a cost investment to replacing existing equipment. Realistically, the future is there, it’s just a matter of getting to it, which takes more time and money initially conceived.

As of right now, the technology has been proven to achieve speeds of up to 60x faster than Australia’s Telstra network. If it continues to improve, hopefully we’ll hear more good news about it.

University of Sydney scientists say they have developed a new technology that could speed up the internet – and not cost users an extra cent.