Surfers in Britain will now be able to bite, chew and digest the internet in its full flavor with the introduction of world’s fastest web service; up to 2,000 times faster download speed than the present services.



The new advance broadband technology will first be introduced in Shoreditch, East London. The service will be streamed in via a new set-top box with integrated functions of a television and computer. It is cited that the new service will take just seven seconds to download all 32,640 pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.



If we compare the existing commercially-available broadband speed of 2 megabits per second (2Mb/s) with the Shoreditch project that offers a speed of up to 2 billions of bits per second (2Gb/s), the breakthrough is remarkable. Around 13,000 square metres (140,000 sq ft) of fibre-optic telecommunications and IT infrastructure has been set up at the Telehouse data centre to fuel the project.



Via: timesonline