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Researchers with IBM have introduced a new set of networking components which could enable internet connection speeds to hit the 100Gb/s barrier.
The company said that its prototype analog to digital converter (ADC) system could dramatically speed up the process of receiving analog and converting them into the binary data used for compute functions.
By speeding up the conversion process, IBM researchers hope to eliminate a critical bottleneck which had been impeding the growth of big data platforms and scientific computation tasks which require the transmission of large volumes of data.
"Most of the ADCs on the market today weren’t designed to handle the massive big data applications we are dealing with today," said IBM Research systems department manager Dr. Martin Schmatz.
"It's the equivalent of funnelling water through a straw from a fire hose."
IBM said that the converters, which were co-designed by the Swiss EPFL institute, use a 33nm
CMOS fabrication process, resulting in smaller, more efficient ADC unit which is capable of converting up to one billion bits of data per second.
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