8.4Gb/s transmissions on the horizon

Tests with a new data transmission protocol promise speeds 150,000 times that of current modems. And, at the recent IEEE conference in Hong Kong, these NCSU scientists, led by associate professor Injong Rhee, presented a paper on their research findings.

Rhee claims that their BIC-TCP, or Binary Increase Congestion Transmission Control Protocol, has techniques for minimising network congestion but also transmits a large amount of data in each packet. He contrasted this to conventional TCP, which is bandwidth limited and, "like using an eyedropper to fill a water main".

Large scale grid-computing would clearly benefit from this technique but also others demanding the fast transfer of large data files such as satellite images or images for telemedicine. µ

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