Terabit Fiber (In 2010)

Paul Heavens writes "A Japanese company has developed technology to transmit a two-hour movie in 0.5 seconds, the world's fastest speed achieved with fibre-optic cables in the field, it says. Kansai Electric used fibre-optic cables on power-transmitting steel towers to achieve the speed of one terabit per second, which is more than 100 times faster than inter-city data transmissions currently in use, a spokesman says. The company, Japan's second-largest power supplier, has not decided when to put the technology into practical use but says it is possible that it would come in 2010 or later."

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We're talking about terabits, not terabytes.

[CyricZ]

Can you please read the goddamn topic summary? Like it clearly says, we're discussing data transmission speeds of "one terabit per second."

Please don't join into our discussions if you don't even know what we're talking about.

Re:Cool, but...

[IdleTime]

"First of all, it's a Japanese company that's developing it."

What? Did you actually expect things like this to be developed by American companies? Why? With todays religious climate here in USA, science and technology has been put on the backburner. Add to that the horrible education system, infrastructure that is laughable, and the ingrained horror and antipathy against anything that may taste of regulations, USA will fall further and further behind the rest of the 1st world. If you take some time to look through /. and other media that reports on new technology, you will see that a wast majority of new technology is not coming from USA Actually less and less innovation is done in USA and in a few decades (with todays trend continuing), virtually none will be done in USA