How much faster?
Two days ago Nature Photonics scientific journal published an article by researchers from the University of Southern California Department of Electrical Engineering, the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectrics at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California and the School of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University. The article explains how twisting light will allow us to transmit up to 2.5 terabits of information a second.
To put this in context, WiFi routers currently transmit approximately 50 megabits a second.
1000 bits= 1 kilobit
1000 kilobits= 1megabit
1000 megabits= 1 gigabit
1000 gigabits= 1 terabit
So, 1 million megabits= 1 terabit. Which means 2.5 million megabits= 2.5 terabits. Essentially we will have the capability to stream information 50,000 times faster than we currently do. Blog i09 likens it (transmitting 2.5 terabits of information a second) to being able to transmit 7 full length Blu-ray movies every second!
What does this mean for MyMediabox and MyMediabox clients? We will have the potential to share more information at much faster rates. In a time when the amount of exposure directly correlates to sales (i.e. the more times a movie trailer is viewed the odds that it will be bought significantly increase), this technology is groundbreaking.
Keep your eyes and ears open for more to come on OAM (oribital angular momentum) combined with SAM (singular angular momentum). When wireless providers are offering these combined, we will have the twisted light technology that the researchers in the U.S. and Israel have uncovered.
To access the full journal article click here. (paywalled)
To see how you can store and share up to 250 different digital file types through MyMediabox-DAM, click here.
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