If you’re like me then you probably get frustrated with the speed of data transfer. It doesn’t matter what type of data I’m transferring or whether I have the fastest connection available, its always too slow! People who think like me have a real treat coming up in the future then with a new laser system that’s capable of sending data at vastly superior speeds.
The laser uses a new type of technology to transmit the data and is capable of going at 26TB/s. This is a huge amount of data to transfer in a second – I could move my entire 1TB hard drive to a different device in a fraction of a second. It would be so quick that it would almost be instantaneous!
It goes without saying that by the time this kind of technology is available for a reasonable price it may not be so quick in comparison to the sizes of data that’s transferred, but it’s difficult to imagine a time in the near future where 26TB/s wouldn’t be enough.
The problem is how they are going to get it working in a home system environment. I don’t know much about the technology so I don’t know how straightforward it is or whether it’s even possible with today’s computers. Even so, it’s something to look forward to! With that sort of speeds computers would be edging towards what we imagined them to be all along.