A research group will be set up in Japan with the purpose in mind of developing an optical technology to replace the Internet Protocol as the global standard.
Net surfing, working on a notebook PC, and PDAs won't be what they used to be.
The group will be established next month and run by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and private companies.
The institute aims to develop and commercialize by around 2015 a network that
can xfer data at 10gigabytes/sec or ten times faster than the NEXT GENERATION network.Some $260 million will be invested in the project over the next five years.
100 billion devices will be able to access the network simultaneously and still enjoy extremely fast data-transfer speeds.
PCs, mobile phones, surveillance cameras, medial sensors and other devices will be able to connect to the network.
The technology will offer stable and reliable high-speed wireless access even on moving high-speed trains.
The Next Next Generation - that's thinking ahead.
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