Plastic Optical Fibers to transmit data at 2.5 gigabits/sec for home Internet

Is it possible to increase the speed of home Internet upto 25 times? With glass fibers cables you must be thinking? But, glass fibers make it difficult as they are too sensitive and difficult to connect due to their receptiveness to breakage.

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However, after six years of experimenting, a research team headed by Hwang Seung-sang at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology has come up with a middle way between presently used copper wires and glass fibers called 'Plastic optical Fibers'. As compared to copper carrying only 100 megabits of data per second, it can do the same task at up to 2.5 gigabits per second.

Much easier to bent and connect with South Korea's uniquely dense housing environment and home infrastructure, it can transmit 6,000 digital phones a second. The date of commercialization is not yet decided, but a promise to replace that creeping broad band service is sure to materialize itself.

Via: FareastGizmos