Holy Moses! Those lucky internet users in South Korea just got a little luckier. The South Korean Government has announced that all homes by 2012 will be connected to an ultra-fast 1 gigabit per second network.
Not Bill Gates Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott today spoke up about the NBN announcement this morning that has promised to deliver speeds 10 times what was previously promised. Despite repeated admissions that he’s not a tech head, he has announced that he believes 1Gbps speeds from the NBN are “utterly implausible”.
A Penn State graduate student and professor have built a system that transmits wireless data at 1Gbps over infrared light. And they think it can go even faster.
The IEEE has begun voting on the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard recently. And while things aren’t even in the drafting phrase yet, this means that we should see the new standard—and the theoretical 1Gbps speeds it brings—by December 2012.
