Internet travels faster

2000/02/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Internet

A Texas company wants to put aside the telephone lines and use the power lines to transport information from the Internet. But it does not want to transport the information by electric current, but rather use as a means of transport the magnetic field that generates the electric lines around it. The information on the Internet will be sent to the power signal generation centers via fiber optic, where it will be transformed into a microwave.

Subsequently, these microwaves will travel outside the electric lines to the receiver modem. In this way, several megabytes per second can be transmitted, much more than using the electric current. The inventor believes that with this use will be achieved a system that competes with telephone transport.