Small device to enable download of 40,000 songs in seconds

 

Your Internet speed complaint may soon become a thing of past.
IBM on Thursday announced it has achieved a new technological advancement that will help improve Internet speeds to 200-400 Gigabits per second (Gb/s) at extremely low power.
That makes possible downloading of 4K ultra-high definition movie or 40,000 songs in a few seconds.
The speed boost is based on a device made in IBM Labs that can be used to improve transferring Big Data between clouds and data centers four times faster than current technology. The device was presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco.
The company is using the technology to develop advanced communications platforms expected to be announced later this year.
To support the increase in traffic, scientists at IBM Research and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have been developing ultra-fast and energy efficient analog-to-digital converter (ADC) technology to enable complex digital equalization across long-distance fiber channels.