Now Internet Goes 10,000 Times Faster

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Have you ever downloaded a full length feature film from internet? With the fastest connections available today, it make require or or more hours to do so. But this will be an outdated tale very soon and internet connections wont be snail slow, but 10,000 time faster than today in the near future as scientists have already developed a new high speed technology named "the grid" that boasts speeds nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband and that may soon render the Web obsolete.

Began back to seven years by researchers at Cern which is the birth place of internet, the grid today is capable of sending heavy data across continents in few seconds. For example, the grid capable of sending the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.

The high speeding computing will open new ways of communication which the older and present generations could not even imagine. Scientists at Cern intend to activate "the grid" this summer alongside what they term as 'red button day' when they will switch on the Large Hadron Collider, the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the Universe.

Professor Tony Doyle, technical director of "the grid" project explained that the grid needs so much processing power which is the greatest issue risen on this project. The only answer is a new network powerful enough to send the data instantly to research centers in other countries.

He further explained that that network, in effect a parallel Internet, is now built, using fiber optic cables that run from Cern to 11 centers in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe, and around the world. From each center, further connections radiate out to a host of other research institutions that use existing high-speed academic networks. Which means Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system so that any student or academic will theoretically be able to hook up to the grid.

Unlike the ordinary internet which has been built by linking together number of cables and routing equipment most of which lacks the capacity for high-speed data transmission, the grid has been built with dedicated fiber optic cables and modern routing centers, ensuring there are no outdated components that manage to slow down the speed of data transmission.

Scientists say that the invention of grid will lead to what is known as 'Cloud Computing', where people will leave all the data online and access it from anywhere.