Internet has simplified life by facilitating the world to become a small
village, where we can have access to the life of from any part of the globe.
What if this ‘accessing power’ becomes 1000 fold than it is today? Yes, life is
easier now with the invention of a new network topology by a group of MIT
researchers.
The new topology is proved to be delivering the Internet with a 100 or
1,000 times ‘accessing speed’. The core technology of internet lies in the span
of high capacity optical fibers across the globe. The controlling routers
cannot process optical signals of varying wavelength that come from different
direction simultaneously, so they store these signals by converting them into
electrical signals and vice versa after processing- a time consuming process.
“Flow switching” the concept of
MIT professor Vincent Chan found solution to save both time and energy. Chan’s
technology emphasizes the idea of converting these fibers into unidirectional
pathways. That means a single fiber will be carrying the signals of same
wavelength and from the same direction, avoiding the queue of data from
different direction. So, there may not be much traffic as well as saving of
data and substantial saving of both time and energy.
The MIT has invested around 20 years for this invention. To implement the
plan, it needs to replace large numbers of routers with new, optical-only
models, which can prove to be very pricey. But it can be an addition for bandwidth-intensive
applications.
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