March 26, 2007 (IDG News Service) IBM researchers showed a prototype optical transceiver chip set Monday that they said will allow people to download movies or share online data eight times faster than current technology allows.
The chip set can move data at 160Gbit/sec. by representing information as light pulses instead of electrons and could be used for both corporate and consumer applications as soon as 2010, IBM said.
Consumer demand for digital media such as movies, music and photos has caused an explosion in the amount of data being transferred over the Internet and underlined the need for greater bandwidth and connectivity, said T.C. Chen, vice president for science and technology at IBM Research, in a statement.
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