Looking at the title, one might think that the content is about some expressway which has some sophisticated infrastructure. Well, it is not. Super-digital-highway is a concept thought about by ITU (International Telecommunications Union) during the early 2000s during 3G technology planning. I came across this in one of the telecom forums.
I was amazed by the cryptography that they planned. Unfortunately, it is still not implemented. To say in an understandable terminology, it is a technology to cram 11,000 phone calls onto one optical fibre and extract them again.
Well, they say this concept got saturated slowly due to the telecoms crash during 2001 and more business based ideas later. Whatever the reasons might be, hats off to the extensive R&D done by the engineering organisations and companies, where they go to an extent which even makes techies feel “wow”. This is why research, patience and standards are given utmost importance in telecom industry to make it strong, which IT is definitely lacking and making itself more volatile.
