New technology to drive Internet faster

Lightning-quick net speeds, more robust connections and a big increase in network capacity at little extra cost may now be possible, thanks to the ground-breaking fibre-optic technology, under a new project.

The project, known as Sardana, involving a consortium of European universities and research institutes, has demonstrated speeds of up to 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps), around 2,000 times quicker than the fastest Internet speed today.

Researchers also showed that such speeds can be achieved at relatively little extra cost using existing fibre infrastructure. Though still in the experimental stages, the fully optical technology would mark a giant leap forward in fibre network performance.

"We are proposing a new access network architecture using fibre to the home that provides new functionalities and extended performance," said Josep Prat, researcher in optical communications, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) Spain and scientific coordinator of the Sardana project.

According to some estimates, yearly global Internet traffic will need to be measured in Zettabytes (one trillion Gigabytes) within the next three years, a four-fold increase from today and the data equivalent of all the movies ever made passing through operators' networks every five minutes, according to an university statement.

Streaming video from sites such as YouTube and Netflix will account for most of the traffic, alongside more widespread use of similarly bandwidth-demanding video conferencing and telepresence applications.

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Yahoo India no longer among internet firms facing criminal charges

New Delhi:  Yahoo India has been dropped from the list of 22 companies facing criminal charges in a Delhi court.  The firms - which include Google, Facebook and YouTube - have been taken to court by journalist Vinay Rai over morphed and obscene photos.  The firms have been accused of conspiring to distribute lascivious content.
But the Delhi High Court today accepted Yahoo's petition that said the lower court had wrongly included it in the list of companies that should be tried; the lawyer for Yahoo! argued that there were no documents to support Mr Rai's allegation against the website for violation of any law.
The High Court accepted that, but warned that the case against Yahoo! could be revived "if credible and actionable pieces of evidence are filed against It."
The lower court judge who has summoned executives of the companies in March; some, like Facebook, have applied for and been granted exemption.
The same internet companies are also dealing with a separate civil suit in another Delhi court where they have been accused of hosting material that allegedly provokes communal hatred and religious intolerance.  Yesterday, the court handling that case agreed that Microsoft should be dropped from the trial after Microsoft argued that the content in question had never been served by it.

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