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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 16, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 24
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Breaking News -
Networking:
Japan's NTT Develops Faster
Optic-Fibre Technology
Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp said on Monday it had developed
technology that drastically raises optic-fibre communication speeds for homes
and offices.
The new technology will increase communication speeds tenfold to one
gigabyte
per second, from around 100 megabytes per second for optic-fibre services now
available, an NTT spokesman said, confirming a Saturday report in the Nihon
Keizai Shimbun daily.
NTT hopes to have the new technology ready for mass production within one
to
two years and then press ahead with commercialization, he said.
The technology developed by NTT, Japan's largest telecoms company, will
make
the downloading of movies and games from the Internet easier.
Two hours of video footage will be able to be downloaded in around 30
seconds,
compared to seven minutes using existing technology, he said.
NTT's fixed-line revenues have been under pressure as users switch to
mobiles
and cut-price Internet protocol (IP) phones, but the telecom giant has said it
aims to win five million new optic-fibre users by 2005/06.
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