Speed. Things seem to be getting faster all the time and now thanks to the wizards at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, they have figured out a way to satisfy the unsatisfiable: Announcing this week a world record in the area of wireless data transmission. Researchers were able to achieve 40Gbit/sec at 240GHz over a distance of one kilometer, essentially matching the capacity of optical fiber.
The goal is to give rural communities across the globe a decent shot at enjoying broadband. There’s no clear word on when the findings will be ported over to the commercial realm, but given the traction being seen in the white spaces arena, you’ll probably not have to wait too long.
