10Gbps Wireless Transfers

Erasei writes "NTT Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group has developed a wireless communications that is capable of transmitting data at speeds of up to 10Gbps. In order to achieve such high data transmission speeds, the system uses the as-yet-unused 120GHz frequency band. The actual bandwidth the system uses is 17GHz, and the method of modulation employed is amplitude shift keying."

Comments

Getting faster

[molywi]

Yesterday there was an article about 19megabits.. now its 10gbps.. Wow, we are getting faster everyday!

Re:Getting faster

[ActiveSX]

10 gbps/day increase. Kiss our asses, Moore.

THIS JUST IN!

[CoffeeJedi]

A large number of birds seem to be falling out of the sky fully cooked near the NTT Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group headquarters near the experimental wireless data towers. More on this strange story as it develops.

Re:THIS JUST IN!

[Hadlock]

actually, there's a space junk tracking facility somewhere in the pan handle of texas, at least, that's the radar sending station..... you'll see a flock of geese go flying past the mile long radar array and all of a sudden the whole flying V will start spiraling downwards till they nearly hit the ground, then suddenly fly upwards again, and spiral back down again until one of them finally spirals out of the radar's effective field, at which point the rest of the geese (or whatever) see one goose flying normally and follow after him. very strange.

Fast Wireless

[FeatherBoa]

...is called "fibre optic"; hundred terabits and look ma - no wires!

Here, take this

[Maradine]

So, basically, what we're saying is, by the time we get to 1Tb/s, we're all going to have to be close enough that I might as well just hand you a floppy?

And is that a run-on? Sheesh. Critics.

Re:Here, take this

[Jedi Alec]

At 1Tb/s, you'd better start shipping me trains full of DVD-R's ;)

10 Gigs a second, eh?

[LordYUK]

Imagine the possibilities... we could slashdot hundreds more sights hundreds times faster!

Re:What range?

[swb]

It'll be useful for trading movies with your 3cm optical disks on your cellphone.

Re:What range?

[DjMd]

Actually I'm hoping to transmit from the desk to the object sitting at the desk...

My current device uses the 560nm-800nm electromagentic spectrum. And while it can send a large volume of data quickly, my receiving unit processes the data, but most it is lost in storage. If only the process wasn't so lossy!

Can anyone recommend any upgrades? I am still using the orginal neural network that came with this model...

(too subtle?)

What's Pikachu have to do with this?

[stratjakt]

There he is in the photo, between the two transmitter thingies.

Does his thunderbolt attack provide the jiggawatts of power needed?

Can we hit 100Gbps if he evolves into Raichu?

Or, most importantly, will this technology help me catch 'em all?

Re:it will probably be slashdotted, not a major si

[mirko]

This would actually be quite funny if this site wer slashdotted as we are currentlydiscussing about its breakthrough in network technologies :-)

Re:It's Gbit/s, not Gbps -- And it's a big problem

[Anonymous Coward]

"But they carefully avoid using overlapping terms to define different things. "

It should be kbit/s not Kbit/s. Kilo is abbreviated 'k' to avoid confusion with 'K' for Kelvin.

I encourage you to use the correct term.

Cheers mate.

Re:Distance

[bravehamster]

Sure, I can understand 10gbps per sec

Wow, how'd they get the transmission rate to accelerate like that? ;)

Re:Not for the office

[Zelet]

That is okay... just hook up the microwave drill and you are on your way.

AOL's new slogan: "You've got cancer!"

[Diesel Dave]

120GHz? Not anywhere near me, thank you. 2 and 5 GHz worry me enough as it is.