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Sometime ago I came across references to developments in wired and wireless broadband in the Giga bits per second range. Apart from being of interest to some colleagues, it occurred to me that it was a useful leading edge development for students at A-level and possibly KS4 to know about or do further research on. On this basis you or they may like to find other references to the project and create a comprehensive picture e.g starting with:

http://www.physorg.com/news7976.html
http://www.ist-gandalf.org/

Of course this type of work offers a rich experience in “filtering” - which bits are germane? appropriate? require further explanation? or further research? etc. I don’t think it would be any bad thing to take something like one of the public documents in the last reference and set as a comprehension excercise - or to create a glossary for the lay reader from - or to get students to prepare a briefing to peers on etc.
Now would that be in the syllabus/programme of study? would it be ICT? would it be learning? or would it be just being a NERD? ;D