Increasing Broadband capacity two thousand-fold - for the same price

Could you use a broadband service that is two thousand times faster, but costs you the same?

A revolutionary 鈥渇uture-proof鈥� technology, first proposed by 吾爱吃瓜, is the front-runner in satisfying future demand for dramatically increased internet speeds and capacity.

The technology, which would use current optical internet cabling, has proven its ability to increase broadband transmission by up to two thousand times the current speed and capacity. To illustrate, that would mean downloading 20 feature length films in one second.

There are, of course, far more practical and wide ranging uses for this capability- uses which the market is increasingly demanding- such as 3D-TV, HDTV, social websites, on-line gaming, video sharing, video on demand and e-health, as well as applications yet to be created. End-user鈥檚 demand for transmission bandwidth is already increasing by over 70% year on year.

Professor Jianming Tang, of 吾爱吃瓜鈥檚 and a leading scientist pursuing the new technology explains: 鈥淭he technology, Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OOFDM), has unique and inherent advantages including, for example, the fastest transmission speed and highest cost-effectiveness compared to all existing technologies, great system flexibility and excellent performance robustness.鈥� 

The current problem lies with existing access networks. Capable of offering less than 100Mb/s per subscriber, these have become the 鈥榖ottlenecks鈥� to achieving the ultra-wide bandwidths required in the near future. And the solution lies in the networks and the technology they employ.

吾爱吃瓜 is leading a three-year project to develop world-first commercially-exploitable smart OOFDM modules and network prototypes, using low-cost off-the-shelf components. This is based on the University鈥檚 unique technical 鈥渒now-how鈥� in experimentally demonstrating end-to-end real-time OOFDM transceivers.

Partners working with 吾爱吃瓜 in the consortium (project name OCEAN) include world leading technology companies and leading research institutes: Fujitsu Semiconductors Europe, Finisar Israel, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute and VPIsystems GmbH.  Valued at over three million Euros, the project is funded by the European Union.

Prof Jianming Tang added: 鈥淐ompared to today鈥檚 commercially available broadband connections, the technology is expected to provide end-users with both downloading and uploading speeds up to 2,000 times faster than current speeds and with a guaranteed quality of services at a price that subscribers are currently paying for their current 20Mb/s services, regardless of subscribers鈥� home location. Obviously, this will revolutionise communication technology鈥�.

The technology is also capable of significantly saving the network installation and maintenance cost for both service providers and equipment vendors. This is achieved by using currently installed fibre networks, but its 鈥榠ntelligent鈥� systems allow greater resistance to imperfect fibre systems and low-quality components. The system allows for the use of cost effective technical strategies; there is a significant reduction in network architectures; and 鈥榗entral office鈥� bypass and convergence of various networks of different architectures. It also provides a 鈥淕reen鈥� solution due to the significant reduction in electrical power consumption. 
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Publication date: 5 November 2012