26 March 2007

IBM Research may blaze path to instant movie downloads

IBM Research says it will demonstrate a new prototype optical transceiver chipset that "is fast enough to reduce the download time for a typical high definition feature-length film to a single second compared to 30 minutes or more over the best available connectivity today."

No word on when this chipset would go commercial. Details will emerge in a paper at the 2007 Optical Fiber Conference in Anaheim.

Click on the link below for the full article:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4725

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