Today's systems suffer from processing and communication inefficiencies that lead to problems in cost, performance, reliability, efficiency, maintainability and other factors. In recognition of this, technology to speed communication and improve processing power is abundant. Witness innovations such as:

	DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing) for improving the bandwidth of optical communication.
	Network-like interconnect strategies in the high-end computing space (e.g. Infiniband ) for enhancing computational speed.
	Serial data transfer in the consumer electronics space (e.g. RAMBUS' RDRAM technology) to provide ever-increasing functionality with real-time performance.
	Continual advancements in semiconductor manufacturing technology to enable faster and faster microprocessors to be built.

However, each of these technologies has their limits.

For example, in the semiconductor arena, the principle improvement in microprocessor speeds can be attributed to improved transistor switching speeds due to shrinking silicon geometries. But, there is a limit. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) holds that one of the significant challenges in continuing to stay on-track with Moore's Law is improvement in interconnect of the transistors, instead of improvements in the transistors themselves. Other application areas (like those mentioned above) face similar fates, as well. In fact, at BuCu Technologies, we believe that this is just the tip of the iceberg.