Welcome to the MATISSE Web page. The MATISSE Project is supported by DARPA to develop a proof-of-concept deployment and demonstration using existing/planned MEMS test platforms and SuperNet connections.
The Internet is operated with speeds as high as 10Gb/s. Most of this capacity is for large numbers of relatively low-bit-rate users--although today's typical user runs at least 20 times faster than the user of a decade ago. Individual users clearly need--or more precisely, would like to get--throughput on the order of 100Mb/s: for example, consider downloading a 1024 x 768 pixel color image with a reasonable response time. Thus, the needs of a single application exceeded network trunk capacity a decade ago, whereas the reverse is true today. Do we need higher capacity to end devices? Are there practical applications that need throughput of gigabits for second?