From News24.com – US scientists have broken the record for the top speed for transferring data over the internet.
The magazine Nature reported in its online edition that a new piece of software allows data to be transferred up to 3 500 times faster than normal over broadband connections.
That type of speed can ultimately make it possible to download a DVD film from the internet in fewer than five seconds.
“We hope that we will be able to publish a first version of the software this summer,” said Steven Low, one of the researchers.
Low and other scientists from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena hope to offer the software for free over the internet.
The “bottleneck” in the transfer of data over the World Wide Web comes from the Internet protocol TCP, the report claims. When errors emerge during the transfer of data packets, the protocol presumes that the network is overloaded and halves the data transfer rate immediately.
“The remedy is much too drastic,” explains Low, even if it was a terrific idea back in the late 80s when it was implemented.
His software measures the delay in sending the data and calculates the workload based on that figure. If the delay rate climbs, the workload is reduced only slightly. – Sapa-DPA
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