Who says the internet is dead and boring? Already CDNs like BitGravity are finding more efficient ways to deliver bandwidth intensive content, and today the Melbourne Herald Sun reports a Greek “whiz” received a Melbourne University prize for finding a way to boost bandwidth over copper by up to 200 times.

Dr John Papandriopoulos has filed patent applications for the technology which reportedly can get up to 250Mbps out of copper using “mathematic modelling to reduce the interference that slows down downloading.”

If true, it could provide an advantage for AT&T which has been rolling out its FTTN IPTV service, using copper as a more cost-effective last mile solution to the home. Verizon plans to spend $20 billion wiring individual homes with Fiber. In any event the technology is years away from implementation.

DSL Reports has more including a pretty good discussion in the comments but there’s not much out there on how it works, such is the nature of technology in the litigious society we live in.

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