Internet Could Be 10 Times Faster Than It Is

from EUREKA

The 100GET project combined some of the largest networking and telecommunications companies in Europe to push the capacity of the Internet to 100 GB Ethernet by improving the efficiencies of its data transfer and networking technologies.

Internet traffic in Europe is growing by 40 percent annually, making the need for increased bandwidth all the more important. “Just increasing the amount of optical fiber will not be enough to cope with the current growth in the Internet traffic,” says Nokia Siemens Networks researcher Rainer H. Derksen. “We needed to find remedies that allowed us to use the available bandwidth of optical fiber more efficiently.”

The research was broken into five sub-projects, which were led by Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland, ADVA Optical Networking, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Ericsson. The sub-projects enabled the companies to work with universities and gain access to proprietary research and technology. The effort has yielded 56 patent applications, the creation of 21 new products, the enhancement of 15 existing products, and the creation of 19 new jobs. Report