Intel Unveils Thunder Bolt Technology: 10 GBps File Transfers

The need for high speed transfer of data has spurred many technologies like eSATA and USB 3.0 but Intel’s newest offering might just one up the others.




Codenamed Light Peak, Intel has launched it under the title Thunder Bolt. The reason to be excited about this particular technology is that it features two bi-directional channels with transfer speeds up to 10Gbps each.
It allows external devices to connect directly to the PCI-e interface on computers,

Pakistanis Enjoy 1.70 Mbps Broadband Internet on Average

Pakistani internet users enjoy an average speed of 1.70 Mbps (regardless of technology), across the country, which is ranked 133rd in the world.


This average speed for Pakistani Internet users is derived from speed tests carried away by SpeedTest.Net, from 646,494 unique IPs (from Pakistan) and for 5,983,459 total tests in total, between Feb 6, 2011 and Mar 7, 2011.

Average Speed for Various Pakistani Cities: