Network
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A new record has been achieved for the fastest internet speed from a single light source – an absolutely astounding 44.2 terabits per second, 44,000 times faster than the highest speed connection. It was made possible by a new kind of optical chip.
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Though portable Bluetooth speakers allow music lovers to share audio with those around them, headphones are mostly a private listening experience. With the launch of Augmented Audio, BG Audio gives users the choice to keep things private or share with others, either locally or remotely.
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In a quantum network, information is passed instantly between nodes that have been entangled, and are unhackable since any unauthorized observation of the data will scramble it. Delft scientists have now overcome a hurdle to that technology, by generating quantum links faster than they deteriorate.
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There’s a whole world of unconnected people out there, and companies are using satellites, drones or even balloons to beam internet to remote areas. Now Airborne Wireless Network plans to make use of the several thousand commercial aircraft in the sky at any given moment to create a meshed network.
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Various kinds of repeaters and mesh networks are available to patch gaps in Wi-Fi coverage throughout your home, and back in October Google announced its intention to stick a finger in that pie with Google Wi-Fi.
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South Korea recently claimed it was rolling out the world's first nationwide IoT network, but the Netherlands has beaten it to the punch. Dutch telecomms company KPN has switched on its own system this week, which reportedly covers the entire country and will be used to connect millions of devices.
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A new trans-Pacific submarine cable built by NEC with the backing of a consortium of telecom companies and Google came online Thursday. The FASTER cable connects the U.S. west coast with Japan via a six-fiber pair cable bringing 60 Terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth under the Pacific.
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Visitors to the UK's Glastonbury Festival this week will be able to upload festival spam to their heart's content, with tech and comms partner EE offering free Wi-Fi by way of 4G-enabled topiary artworks. The firm says its provision for Glastonbury is the UK's biggest temporary 4G network.
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Samsung and SK Telecom are working together to build a commercial Internet of Things (IoT) network across South Korea. The network will serve as infrastructure for various public services and businesses, allowing devices to gather, share and make use of data like weather and traffic conditions.
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A team at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a system that enables a wireless access point to accurately locate users down to a tenth of a meter, without any added sensors.
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A study by Samsung proposes a fleet of thousands of satellites that would provide internet coverage for billions of people across the globe, including in highly inaccessible areas.
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One small internet service provider is giving Google Fiber a run for its money, but offering connections with ten times as much speed. US Internet, based in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka, announced this week that it has begun rolling out 10 gigabit per second internet access.
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