USA Today is reporting that Google is currently working on technology that will increase internet speeds up to 10x. While Google Fiber is already incredibly fast, the Sunnyvale company wants to increase it by an order of magnitude:

Google Fiber offers data transfer speeds of 1 gigabit per second currently. But the company is already working on speeds of 10 gigabits per second…[Google CFO Patrick] Pichette called this the next generation of the Internet and said it was part of Google’s broader, long-term obsession with speed.¹

Sign me up. I am currently writing this with a measly 14 Mbps down, 4Mbps up speed. Hell, even the Fiber speed will be just fine. 10 gigabits per second is so fast, that it is hard to even imagine. Companies other than Google are working towards similar speeds:

Google is not the only one working on this. Last year, researchers in the U.K. announced that they achieved data transmission speeds of 10 gigabits per second using “li-fi” a wireless Internet connectivity technology that uses light.²

Li-Fi is a pretty incredible concept as well. The U.K. researchers, mentioned in the quote above, took the results and formed a company to further the applications of such technology. PureLiFi, has pioneered and developed, “the use of the visible light spectrum instead of radio frequencies to enable wireless data communication. In collaboration with technology and solutions providers, pureLiFi technology will provide ubiquitous high-speed wireless access that offers substantially greater data densities than Wi-Fi along with inherent security properties that eliminate unwanted external network intrusion.”³ In-fact, PureLiFi’s Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer gave an incredibly interesting Ted Talk on the subject. Check it out:

It will be interesting to see how Google’s new 10 gigabits per second internet infrastructure looks and if it includes any Li-Fi components. Whatever the case, here is hoping they expand beyond  Kansas City, Provo, and Austin.