10Gbit to the Home by 2010

womby writes "Nihon Keizai Shinbun report (Japanese) that NTT, Fujitsu and the Japanese Government are forming a working group to develop internet technologies that will hopefully allow homes to receve 10 gigabit internet connections by 2010.
'The Japanese government (the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunication) are going to start a development plan next year that will increase the speed of the internet in Japan to 100 times faster than the current 100MB fibre internet, with partner companies it is aiming for completion by 2010.' A complete Translation is here, if my blog gets beaten into the ground try the Coral Cache Link."

Comments

Multimedia, Video & Multiple Devices

[Donny Smith]

Hard Disks - you don't need HDD for video conferencing and such.

Buses - if you have 10 devices (3 TVs, 2 PCs, 2 video phones, 4 security cameras, 2 PlayStation 5) in your home, it shouldn't be too hard to use up that bandwidth. Any particular device alone wouldn't need to be able to use up the bandwidth, but all together, they could.

Just imagine how much bandwidth could be consumed by four kids playing virtual-reality games on the Internet...

Let's think scientific research.

[Vlion]

OK.
In a research project near my university, a professor wants to be able to store roughly 30 GB/s.
He is sampling some states in the nervous system.
O'course, he a bio prof, but that gives you some idea about scientific computation.

Now, let's think video.
Say in 10 years professional movie makers film in voxels, not pixels. That takes an incredible amount of storage.

Or say gaming- instead of relying on mega-servers to handle your rpg, you can run a 256-player game from your home machine without blinking.

I would wager only bus limitations prevent one from doing that with a modern 2 CPU system. :-)