Earlier this week, I was reading about the new USB 3.0 standard coming out and how it's throughput was estimated to be about 320 megabits/second (about 10x the throughput of USB 2.0).
Upon reading this, I was quite intrigued and started thinking how technology continues to grow by leaps and bounds.
Today, there's an article about a Japanese company (seems to be fairly well established - no fly-by-night sort of thing) who has announced a fibre-optic based communication link - basically, the future of USB.
First of all, what's interesting about this technology is that it's capabilities exceed that of the existing USB capabilities. Reportedly, the thought that this new fibre optic link will not only link USB devices, but also other devices with communication links. One of the primary links would be between the computer and the monitor.
For one thing, if this comes to pass, this might alleviate some of the proliferation of non-standard communication interfaces out there (one cable does all, sort of approach).
What really got my techno-drool factor going though is that the CURRENT expected throughput is about 10 gigabytes per second - an improvement 30 fold over USB 3.0 and 300x greater than the current standard USB 2.0.
Scientists there speculate that in the future, they expect the throughput to be up in the 30gbps range.
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