MIT researchers have developed technology that they say not only will compose Internet 100 to 1,000 times quicker, but as well might make speedy data access much cheaper.

The deception to such theatrical performance gains lies in routers that direct traffic on Internet, as per an electrical engineering and PC science professor at MIT, who led research team. He told that restoring electrical signals inside routers by quicker optical signals will formulate Internet 100 times if not 1,000 times quicker, whereas it will as well reducing amount of energy it consumes.

What will Internet be like if it ran that much quicker? Nowadays, a user who has a hard time downloading a 100MB file will be able to simply send a 10GB file, as per the Chan.

With ever more powerful PC processors and bandwidth hungry applications, Internet will achieve a "throttle point" inside three to five years, Chan said.

Nowadays routers have trouble dealing with inward fiber-optic signals, so those signs are changed into electrical signals that can be stored in memory pending they can be processed, as per the MIT's report. The electrical signals are next converted back to optical signals so they can be sent back out.

That process takes lots of time and energy, so Chan and his team developed technology they call flow switching that will remove require for such conversions. A speedier Internet will be a huge achievement, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group. "At present, the network is the blockage for hosted computing. This transform might transform industry as we know it," he said. "We are going to require a quicker Internet. We need it now."