Researchers receive £7.2m broadband boost - Fibre Cables

Researchers receive £7.2m broadband boost - Fibre Cables Companies which currently use fibre cables to access the internet could soon be using a different connection altogether, after the government invested £7.2 million into faster broadband research.

The University of Southampton will host the Photonic Hyperhighway project, which aims to harness the speed of light and could improve the performance of internet infrastructure by 1,000 times, the Telegraph reported.

Professor David Payne, leader of the initiative, commented: "Now is the time to look ahead to develop the UK infrastructure of the future.

"Traffic on the global communications infrastructure continues to increase 80 per cent year-on-year. This is driven by rapidly expanding and increasingly demanding applications, such as internet television services and new concepts like cloud computing," he explained.

The project will also look into upgrading the fibre cables that currently carry light signals thousands of miles around the world, in a bid to find alternative materials that could provide improved reliability and security.

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