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Hello folks,<br>
<br>
with the upcoming technical developments likely to happen soon (see
below), is there really a need for corporations to "break" the
User-centric Internet by needing to prioritise traffic in
discriminatory ways?<br>
This being a rhetorical question, I don't need an answer, but I do
note that it is always when we're being told "we've reached the
limit" that someone announces a discovery that takes the current
limit much higher.<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Olivier<br>
<br>
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<td>[IP] UCSB "Tomorrow’s Internet: 1000 times faster"</td>
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<td>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:23:52 -0400</td>
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<td>Dave Farber <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dave@farber.net"><dave@farber.net></a></td>
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<td>ip <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ip@listbox.com"><ip@listbox.com></a></td>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; text-align: right;"><b>October
20, 2010</b></div>
<h2 style="color: rgb(40, 63, 97); font-size: 1.3846em;
margin: 6px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Tomorrow’s
Internet: 1000 times faster</h2>
<h3 style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 1.231em; margin:
4px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">UCSB-led
team developing next-generation Ethernet to handle surging
traffic, support cloud computing, emerging applications</h3>
<p>Imagine if all the data traversing the world right now—on
long distance networks and between and within computers and
other hardware—could be sent through a single fiber the
width of a human hair.</p>
<p>A new research center has been launched at the University
of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to make that a reality.
Researchers with the Terabit Optical Ethernet Center (TOEC)
will develop the technology necessary for a new generation
of Ethernet a thousand times faster, and much more energy
efficient, than today’s most advanced networks. They are
aiming for 1 Terabit Ethernet over optical fiber—1 trillion
bits per second—by 2015, with the ultimate goal of enabling
100 Terabit Ethernet by 2020.</p>
<p>Partnering with TOEC as founding industry affiliates are <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.google.com/"
style="outline-style: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);
text-decoration: underline;">Google Inc.</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.verizon.com/"
style="outline-style: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);
text-decoration: underline;">Verizon</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.intel.com/go/sp"
style="outline-style: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);
text-decoration: underline;">Intel</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.agilent.com/"
style="outline-style: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);
text-decoration: underline;">Agilent Technologies</a> and <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.rockwellcollins.com/"
style="outline-style: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);
text-decoration: underline;">Rockwell Collins Inc</a>.</p>
<p>Internet traffic is booming, as businesses and institutions
handle massive quantities of data and consumers stream
video, share high-resolution photos and battle it out in
online games. Millions of people will soon be consuming
billions of bits per second in their living rooms, all at
the same time.</p>
<p>“We’re going to need much faster networking to handle the
explosion in Internet traffic and support new large-scale
applications like cloud computing,” says <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ocpn.ece.ucsb.edu/index.php/professor-blumenthal"
style="outline-style: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);
text-decoration: underline;">Daniel Blumenthal</a>,
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSB and
Director of TOEC, which is part of UCSB’s Institute for
Energy Efficiency (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://iee.ucsb.edu/" style="outline-style: none;
color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: underline;">IEE</a>).</p>
<p>“The work that will be conducted at TOEC will enable the
future of the Internet,” says Stuart Elby, Vice President of
Network Architecture for Verizon.</p>
<p>Ethernet, the way computers talk to each other over a
network, has become the de facto standard for data
transmission both on a small scale and across global
networks. “It’s an accepted, flexible interface,” says
Internet pioneer <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.epp.cmu.edu/people/bios/farber.html"
style="outline-style: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);
text-decoration: underline;">David Farber</a>, a professor
at Carnegie Mellon University and former Chief Technologist
for the Federal Communications Commission.</p>
<p>Ethernet is constantly evolving, but soon—in as little as
five years, according to some estimates—it won’t be able to
keep up with the speed and bandwidth required for
applications like video and cloud computing, and distributed
data storage.</p>
<p>“Based on current traffic growth, it’s clear that 1 Terabit
per second trunks will be needed in the near future,” Elby
says.</p>
<p>Not only will Terabit Ethernet soon be needed to satisfy
the demands created by the way we use networks now, but
Farber says high-performance, high-speed Ethernet will open
up opportunities we couldn’t dream of today: “You build it,
they will come.”</p>
<p>“We are excited to be part of this new center and look
forward to working with the other members to enable this
future capability,” says Mario Paniccia, Director of Intel’s
Photonics Technology Lab.</p>
<p>Current Ethernet technologies can’t be pushed much past 100
Gigabits per second—the speed that’s beginning to be
implemented now—mainly because of the amount of power needed
to run and cool the required systems, Blumenthal says. Large
data centers can consume as much power as a small city. New
generations of Ethernet need to be much more
energy-efficient and cost-effective, or the power problem
will limit Ethernet development, crippling the growth of key
U.S. industries and technologies.</p>
<p>“Our goal,” Blumenthal says, “is to make energy-saving
technologies that will allow applications and the underlying
networks to continue to scale as needed. You could think of
it as greening future networks, and the systems that rely on
those networks.”</p>
<p>To achieve that, and drive Ethernet toward 100 Terabits per
second, fundamental improvements in the underlying
technologies will be required, he adds. “We’re going to need
dramatic breakthroughs across multiple disciplines, not only
in the core Ethernet technologies but in Ethernet-based
networking and in the engineering and measurement systems
used to develop and test these new technologies,” Blumenthal
says.</p>
<p>Research at TOEC will build on UCSB’s world-leading
expertise in materials, advanced electronics, photonic
integrated circuit technology, silicon photonics and
high-speed integrated optical and electronic circuits, and
in bridging these new technologies with real networking
systems. Blumenthal says new low-cost, energy-efficient
optical technologies that leverage the techniques now used
in semiconductor manufacturing will be the foundation for
the Ethernet of the future.</p>
<p>“Our strategy of using silicon photonics to create
low-cost, integrated, Terabit-per-second devices,” says
Paniccia of Intel, “fits perfectly with TOEC’s charter for
energy-efficient high-speed Ethernet.”</p>
<p>Doug Baney, Senior Research Manager at testing and
measurement company Agilent Technologies, says “the
characterization of the high-speed and complex nature of
future Terabit Ethernet communications opens up whole new
challenges in measurement instrumentation. That’s a critical
area that needs to be solved in tandem with component and
system development to help pave the way to Terabit Ethernet
deployment.”</p>
<p>Other UCSB researchers who are involved with TOEC, all
professors in the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/" style="outline-style:
none; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: underline;">Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering</a>, are IEE
Director <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://optoelectronics.ece.ucsb.edu/profile/john-bowers"
style="outline-style: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);
text-decoration: underline;">John Bowers</a>, Acting Dean
of Engineering <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/Faculty/Coldren/home.htm"
style="outline-style: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);
text-decoration: underline;">Larry Coldren</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://engineering.ucsb.edu/faculty/profile/302"
style="outline-style: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);
text-decoration: underline;">Nadir Dagli</a> and <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/Faculty/rodwell/"
style="outline-style: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);
text-decoration: underline;">Mark Rodwell</a>.</p>
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