A Bandwidth Breakthrough

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David Talbot, MIT Technology Review:

Academic researchers have improved wireless bandwidth by an order of magnitude—not by adding base stations, tapping more spectrum, or cranking up transmitter wattage, but by using algebra to eliminate the network-clogging task of resending dropped packets of data.

Very interesting. This sounds like it has great potential. As we transition to a wireless world, every speedup counts.