Ever Faster Speeds

Posted by Giselle on April 7, 2009

The internet, unbeknownst to most evolves and changes day by day with respect to hardware upgrades and software revisions that makes it faster and better for all of us. Hard to imagine back during the times when dial-up and speeds of 1bps were the norm and BBS services ruled the developing net. In a span of a few years, we have Yahoo, Google and now Bing that Microsoft is betting to be the next big thing is search engine technology. The internet being comprised of several interconnected networks can in fact make new connections in cyber-space should one of the links fail allowing us to see a bit of a slowdown but allows life to continue in a few minutes, or hours or even days for major ones.
True to this, errors happen all the time, most often getting fixed in split seconds as switches and hubs transfer links to ports and alternate connections. The speeds at which these switching hardware operate are indeed mind-boggling, able to receive, direct and re-send them to their designated recipients all over the globe at the speed of light through fiber-optic cables and other developing technologies such as WiFi and WiMax that are expanding the wireless network day by day.