N.C. State Researchers Develop Faster Internet Protocol

http://www.nbc17.com/news/2943796/detail.html

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Three researchers at North Carolina State University have created a new software that promises to speed up the Internet like never before.

A task that takes 10 minutes to download with a DSL modem can be download in two to four seconds with BIC-TCP, or Binary Increase Congestion Transmission Control Protocol.

Dr. Injong Rhee and two colleagues at N.C. State created the technology that is being hailed as breakthrough Internet protocol.

"We need a new protocol that can utilize this humongous information, so we can send faster data as required by big companies and researchers around the world," Rhee said.

In a nutshell, the software can send out massive amounts of files to numerous locations across the globe in a fraction of the time as current systems. Rhee said BIC can operate at speeds approaching 10 gigabits per second, which is roughly 6,000 times that of DSL and 150,000 times that of current modems.

Sounds good, more porn!

Hmm... I dunno, this may be some sort of "we cache it first then we transfer it faster because we have it cached" system like NetZero employs, advertising it as "faster internet" when in reality it's just cached internet.

Murg, it's actually a new protocol, like TCP/IP was, if I'm not mistaken. The name implies (at least, to me) that it's similar to Collision Detection/Avoidance type technology, only maybe more efficient?

Originally posted by Bullhead
Murg, it's actually a new protocol, like TCP/IP was, if I'm not mistaken. The name implies (at least, to me) that it's similar to Collision Detection/Avoidance type technology, only maybe more efficient?

Ah.. pays to read the whole article especially if you're as cynical as I am.

Well, according to the article there also needs to be wide-scale upgrading of current land lines, so basically they invented a new way to transmit data through a new kind of line, if I'm understanding this corretly.

I haven't read the entire article yet (running on 4hrs sleep, can't think real well), but I recall it saying it would run on existing Cat5e cabling. Don't recall if that meant running cat5e between cities (!) or just that it used those same cables for the intranetwork. Guess I should go read it

Originally posted by Bullhead
I haven't read the entire article yet (running on 4hrs sleep, can't think real well), but I recall it saying it would run on existing Cat5e cabling. Don't recall if that meant running cat5e between cities (!) or just that it used those same cables for the intranetwork. Guess I should go read it

Well get some sleep, smacker!

I dunno, if they're going to say they invented some sort of new protocol that exploits some new cables, they might as well have just said "we've invented a new method of transferring data over land-lines". The way it makes it sound is that they've found some breakthrough compression that will revolutionize data transfer, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

[Colonel Ingus]

Rhee said the entire infrastructure of the Internet would require an upgrade and that will be costly and could take about 10 years.

[cavalierlwt]

screw these guys, all we need to get fiber to the home. If they can just find a way to make a profit with fiber to the curb, we'd all be rolling in the bandwidth. This is one case where all the anti-monopoly laws have ironically killed progress. Anyone running fiber to home incurs a big financial risk, and if it pays off, all their competitors jump in and rent the fiber from them(at cost) and drive the price down till the profit margin is nearly non-existent. Or, it doesn't pay off and they lose their shirt. So it's nearly no profit, or lose their shirt.

There is an unbelievable glut of high speed bandwidth at the transport level. Sad.

[Conscious*]

I use OC 255 this is gibber jabber.

[cavalierlwt]

Originally posted by Crypt
I use OC 255 this is gibber jabber.

gibber jabber?