High-speed Internet next generation in UK wil allow do download 32,564 pages from britain library in less than 10 seconds, this news was announced today in London by a group of scientists, responsable for the system creation. According to a UK journal working for "The Times", this high-speed technology will be the fastest in the world.

Shoreditch Project is it's name, it will allow access internet images and content with a speed of 2 GB/ Second, while the major internet speed connections actually avaible in UK is 2 megabytes/second.

The new system has 13 000 meters of optical fibre and will replace the vital network connections in case of terrorist attack.


Great news for UK internet users

Good for th UK users. The United States government better step up with something like that soon or I'm moving to the UK. This should boost webste production and make the internet more usable because more people in the UK will want to use the internet for thier needs, and the people that are using it will be able to do things much faster, in the UK of cource.

This post has been edited by jake658879: Mar 7 2006, 12:14 PM

Wow! 2gbps?!! That's huge! But what's the point if all major connections around the world are not more than 2mbps? The download speed can't be more than the upload speed of the server right?

Oh joy, more websites will start being more polluted with awful flash animations... cant wait

Heh, on a serious note it's always great to see a tech advance, but I assume it'll be a fair while before it hits this side of the pond (especially here in Canada). Until then the majority of webpages won't customize to those user's since Brits make up only a small portion of web users, and of those only a certain portion will even have this megauberpwnt-internet

who cares about flash at this speed?

what about online gaming...it would be a blast.

That's it! I officially do not need any more reasons to move to the UK *grins*

No, not really. I just hope the U.S. jumps on this soon too.

Is this 2GBps connection only available in the library? Or limited to just one service provider? Or is it still in research, and not actually implemented yet?

Last year, a service provider (HKBN) in Hong Kong started providing 1 GBps connections for about $30 US dollars a month. I guess that's pretty close to what UK offers now. But for connections to non-HK servers, the speed was significantly slower.

Hatim - My concern wasn't actually having to download the flash animations, it's that if people all start using flash even more, there will be even more sites with horrid looking annoying flash crap... flash is one of the best things to have happened to the net.. and one of the worst So much flash trash out there with all the badly animated overloaded put you in a seizure type sites :|

But yea throw up a link to the news article if you have one, I have a few curiosities based on what your original comments stated...

With most standard ethernet cables maxing out around 1GB/s or so I thought, I would lvoe to know what cable is going to carry this 2GB/s signal. Even assuming the average modem could handle the signal, to split the signal with a router would decrease the speed by 1/2, making it impracticle for the home. I would imagine that this is a dedicated line to the library, since thelibrary was mentioned specifically. It seems that it was designed to maintain basic required functionailty in case of a terrorist attack, not designed to aid the average person greatly. and the Us govt has systems like that set up for its own use already, in small, isolated areas for intersite communications.

~Viz

It always makes my laugh when i see super high speed internet adverts..

For example Bulldog offers 8mbit connection ( with a 2gigabit a month limit )

click the wrong button, maybe start downloading FreeBSD by accident, then go make a coffee.

when you get back, your months bandwidth has gone.