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Researcher Only High Bandwidth Network
Icarus1919 writes "A brand-new 10 gigabit per second per user optical fiber network is now available to researchers in the U.S. (compared to Internet2, which offers only 10 gigabits of bandwidth total, regardless of the number of users). The National Lambda Rail, as it is known, is named for the 40 different wavelengths of light it uses to send data within the fiber network. In the past, researchers have complained about the relatively (relative when you're dealing with terabytes of data) small bandwidth they can access to send data, and the addition of the NLR will most likely be a boon to research."
I feel so sorry for those researchers, stuck at 20Gb/s... honestly, i know terabyte databases arent that uncommon among researchers (or that common) but honestly how much of a difference is 20Gb/s to 10Gb/s, you might save half the time but to be honest when calculations can take days/weeks this transfer rate isnt going to make a huge difference... (now in my basement that might be a different story...)
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I haven't seen too many disk sub-systems out there that can store data faster than 640 Mbits per second. Will 10Gbit per second really be that useful? Maybe I am wrong...
That's Newscientist and Wired btw.
They're quite used to the Slashdot effect, and there is no way they're going to go down that easily.
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I think the main application of this improvement is that it could boost the video conferencing applications or video streaming (which has seen so less improvement in the recent days). When talking about 10 Gb/s bandwidth, it does not help anything with our system unless you are dealing with huge amounts of data - like video streaming or conferencing.
Also considering the fibre optic communication(FOC) systems it is been quite some time since we knew the potential of the FOC. Seriouly, we had 1Tb/s experimental systems 4 years back and only now do we have a 10Gb/s per user system.
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You may remember that the "internet 1" was a researcher-only network once and we all know how that turned out.
With even more competition now that the Electric companies can offer broadband service I think we'll see a Moores-law type situation in Telecom (albeit with a longer cycle then 18 months). With networks like this serving as a proving ground for new technology I think we'll see a speed-race among providers. Americans love Horsepower, RPM, GhZ, and they may not know it yet but Mb/s. Shane
That's a great speed, but how much data can be processed on the recieving end? Would it just shove it into RAM or ? I'm just trying to think how a network card would handle/distribute that much data at once.
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