To be honest, these improvements aren’t all that surprising. TCP was designed for wired networks, where lost packets are generally a sign of congestion. Wireless networks are in desperate need for forward error correction (FEC), and that’s exactly what coded TCP provides.

Originally posted by Raelsatu
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You should take a look at new fiber-optic network tech developed by Bangor University scientist. They've boosted bandwidth speeds to at-least 20Gbps, which is 2000 times faster than the average UK bandwidth connection.

Bangor University Scientists Boost Fibre Speeds To 20Gbps

Originally posted by Grimmley
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That will be interesting to see if they implement something like this. It would be nice to see tech increase in speed while still running under the bandwith. Now are they going be interesting if they did, will companies charge more for speed increase even though they are still using the same bandwith?

Grim

Originally posted by amraks
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I should of stated thats what our government would use it for instead of running more cables.

OFDM, a method for encoding digital data, has the advantage that it is already widely used in other settings. OOFDM technology could be used to offer faster speeds over currently installed fibre networks, making it more cost-effective than systems which would involve modifying the encoding and decoding hardware or the fibre-optic cables themselves, and according to the university.

Originally posted by Raelsatu

Originally posted by amraks

They will do this on the back hauls I reckon. same with this wireless software. could be a good back up/temporary gateway at peak times.

What do you mean? You think this will only be a backup? As far as I can tell they plan on implementing this into the network infrastructure so that the average user will have these speeds.

Have you seen the other tech that allows for 2.5 tbps speeds using "twisted light"?

"Twisted Light" Paves the Way for Ultra-Fast Internet

Orbital angular momentum, when applied to fiber-optic and potentially wi-fi data streams, takes the principle of splitting different streams to different polarizations and alters it so that rather than having different polarizations, the data streams are "twisted" together, packed in more tightly, and can therefore carry more stuff. "The idea is not to create light waves wiggling in different directions but rather with different amounts of twist, like screws with different numbers of threads," says the BBC.

We briefly note the overhead associated with network coding. The main overhead associated with network coding can
be considered in two parts: 1) the coding vector (or coeffi-
cients) that has to be included in the header; 2) the encoding/decoding complexity. For receiver to decode a network
coded packet, the packet needs to indicate the coding coeffi-
cients used to generate the linear combination of the original
data packets. The overhead associated with the coefficients
depend on the field size used for coding as well as the number
of original packets combined. It has been shown that even
a very small field size of F256 (i.e. 8 bits = 1 byte per coef-
ficient) can provide a good performance [11, 19]. Therefore,
even if we combine 50 original packets, the coding coeffi-
cients amount to 50 bytes over all. Note that a packet is
typically around 1500 bytes. Therefore, the overhead associated with coding vector is not substantial.