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10Gbit to the Home by 2010

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-bloody-likely dept.

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."

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  1. Uhh... by xgamer04 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First, we need hard drives and system buses that can get the data moving at this speed.

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    1. Re:Uhh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
      Uh, what hard drive you do have that can do 1.2 gigabytes per second?!?! Without RAID, I've never see a HD read benchmark much above 50 MEGABYTES per second. (+/- 50%. I don't follow hard drives too closely.)

      As for bus throughput, SATA is 150 MB/sec, PCI in its various forms ranges from 133 MB/sec to 533 MB/sec. PCI-X is about 1GB/sec, and PCI Express finally breaks the 1.2 GB/sec barrier if you use the 8x or 16x variety.

      Of course, if you gave the NIC a Hypertransport bus link directly to the CPU, you could also do this now. But Hypertransport is definitely cutting edge for home users. I wouldn't call it "easy".

      Given hard drive limitations, you'd better be streaming all that data into RAM, or you'll never keep up. :)

  2. Do the math by TrevorB · · Score: 5, Funny

    10gbps = 1.25GB/s = 2 DivX movies/s = 1 DVD-5/4s = 416 MP3s/s = Brown Trousers time for the MPAA = Roll over in grave time for RIAA

  3. Re:I'll believe it by CptChipJew · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People said that about 14.4, 28.8, 56k, and DSL.

    By the time we have 10GBits in the home, porn, warez, and Linux distributions will hit a size large enough to make that not the worlds greatest connection.

    It's always been that way.

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  4. Multimedia, Video & Multiple Devices by Donny+Smith · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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...

  5. checklist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    *) japanese for dummies book... check
    *) japanese dictionary... check
    *) laptop.... check
    *) slacwkare 10... check
    *) gigabit interface... check
    *) plane-ticket... check

    woohoo tentacle pr0n here I COME!

  6. Re:Why? by general_re · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Why do we really need this sort of insane bandwidth in ones home?

    Put it out there, and people will find a use for it. Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that because we can't imagine how someone would use it, that means that nobody will find a use for it.

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  7. MP3s/s by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 5, Funny
    MP3s/s

    I love it. The NEW standard to measure bandwith.

  8. Pr0n?.... by ImaLamer · · Score: 4, Funny

    ....I can't even move my hand that fast.

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  9. The future holds... uh-oh... by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 4, Funny


    There's no storage problem. GMail accounts will be 1 Terabyte by then. Email yourself a big attachment.

    We won't have 2GHz processors that wait 99.999% of the time for your every keystroke, like they do now. They will be 20 GHz and will wait 99.9999%.

    There will be mods that turn a motherboard into a radar.

    Britney Spears will be an old married woman by then. You will be able to examine her stretch marks in high definition detail.

    ... because too much is never enough.

  10. Re:25GBps ought to be enough for anybody by spektr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah - the HiFi-freaks will still swear that those unrecognizable things above 10 TBps *DO* make a difference. And a 100 TBps pipe still can't beat vinyl. I predict a celluloid-revival for 2009. People will trash their DVDs and enjoy the smooth gradients that only celluloid can deliver.

  11. Upload? by Dragon218 · · Score: 4, Funny

    But the upload speed will still be around 128Kb/s.

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  12. Let's think scientific research. by Vlion · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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. :-)

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