Global Technology – April 2012

Now let’s focus on this month’s most important advances in technology.  We’ll begin with a dramatic breakthrough that could lead to blisteringly fast Internet speeds and a big increase in network capacity at little extra cost, even in rural areas. That’s the result of a joint research project by a consortium of universities, research institutes, equipment vendors, and telecom operators in the EU.  The so-called “Scalable advanced ring-based passive dense access network architecture” project, or “Sardana” for short, is pioneering techniques for imp.....