Comcast Testing Higher-Speed Internet

Think your high-speed Internet is fast now? Wait until 2009, when Comcast plans to roll out its new 100 Gbps optical networking. The provider is currently "conducting what it claims is the first test of 100-gigabit-per-second optical networking equipment carrying live Internet traffic over a production fiber infrastructure". The test is happening at the same time as the gathering of the Internet Engineering Task Force, which occurs this week in Philadelphia.

“This is a significant milestone in readying for the deployment of 100-gigabit optics,” said John Scanz, executive vice president of national engineering and technical operations for Comcast. “It’s an enabling building block for going to wideband.” The term "wideband" refers to one of the latest technology hurdles in the high-speed industry that puts several channels together to give users download speeds that are unheard of (100 Mbps or more).

To give an idea of how fast this wideband test is, current broadband speeds operate at around 10 Mbps on the high end for the average home.  If you want to learn more about the test of this blazing fast internet,  feel free to read up on it at Multichannel News.