Reaching the outer limits of Internet speed is a daunting challenge for a rapidly evolving medium that already has surpassed velocities once thought unattainable, such as T1 and T3.
"The biggest barrier to a faster Internet is the speed of light," former Novell chief technology officer Glenn Ricart, who wrote the first TCP/IP stack for the IBM PC, told NewsFactor. "The way we will cross the barrier probably lies with something being worked on right now in physics labs."
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