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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical OT: Slowing the speed of light to improve networking?
A colleague brought this article to my attention. Slightly off-topic, but interesting nonetheless: "Researchers at UC Berkeley, along with scientists from the University of Oregon and the University of Illinois, say they can slow the speed of light in a way that could help speed the delivery of movies to your PC. "Scientists at the university managed to slow the speed of light traveling through a semiconductor to 6 miles a second, or 31,000 times slower than the 186,000 miles per second that light normally travels in a vacuum. "Slowing the light pulses could lead to a more orderly traffic flow in networks, ....." Full article: http://news.com.com/Slowing+the+speed+of+light+to+improve+networking/2100-1033_3-5387842.html?tag=cd.lede - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [email protected] or [email protected]
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