Connection speeds look like they might be faster

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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23997354-15321,00.html

The breakthrough, announced during a special session at a photonics conference in Sydney yesterday, breaks through technical ceilings holding back the hundreds of thousands of fibre-optic cables that ring the earth.

The breakthrough was jointly discovered by photonics whizzes at Australian National University and Sydney University who found they could etch circuit-like patterns in glass to switch fibre-optic signals much faster than conventional electronics.

Professor Ben Eggleton, director of the Centre for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), which developed the technology, said that the world's fibre links could handle more data than the complicated pieces of electronics that currently welded them together.

Looks like we all might be getting faster speed eventually.