Global warming has melted so much Arctic ice that telecommunications firms are moving forward with projects that were unthinkable just a few years ago: laying underwater fiber optic cable between Tokyo and London through the Artic Circle. The route is the shortest underwater path between Tokyo and London. The proposed systems will nearly cut in [...]
Governments and carriers are cooperating on fiber to the home proposals, most notably in Austalia and recently in Hawaii. But other areas are getting on board the fast train. Hyperoptic is offering select residents of London access to 1 Gbps fiber to the home for £50 ($79) per month (in multi-dwelling buildings only). Virgin’s 100Mbps [...]
A new development on the shores of Lake Ontario will offer Internet connections 500 times faster than most homes, offering speeds of up to 10 gigabits a second for businesses or 100 megabits for residential use. It’s modeled on similar undertakings in Seoul, Tokyo, Stockholm, London and Paris. The Toronto broadband project is expected to [...]
The EU-financed SARTRE project has carried out the first successful demonstration of its vehicle platooning technology at the Volvo Proving Ground in Sweden. Vehicle platooning is a convoy of vehicles, where a driver in a lead vehicle drives a line of other vehicles. Each car measures the distance, speed and direction and adjusts to the [...]
Autonomous orange vans, built by a team from Italy’s Visilab, has arrived at the Shanghai World Expo after leaving Italy this in July. The driverless van relied solely on electricity and featured 12 sensors, including cameras, a carbon dioxide sensor, a GPS device and an off-road laser scanner. The van topped out at 37 miles [...]
Lasers will replace copper connections in everything from supercomputers to servers to PCs, according to Intel researchers who demonstrated 50-Gb/s optical transmitter and receiver chips that the company plans to scale up to terabit-per-second speeds prior to commercialization, reports EE Times. “This is the first completed photonic link with integrated lasers,” said Justin Rattner, Intel’s [...]
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