Terabit Fiber (In 2010)

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 30, 2005 @03:00AM from the sign-me-up dept.

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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"transmit a two-hour movie in 0.5 seconds"? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-30 03:03 · Score: 5, Funny

You guys sure know how to bait the MPAA here, don't you?
1. Re:"transmit a two-hour movie in 0.5 seconds"? by whathappenedtomonday · 2005-10-30 03:06 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I guess it means that pr0n fuels innovation once again.
  
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2. Re:"transmit a two-hour movie in 0.5 seconds"? by Freexe · 2005-10-30 03:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  But what about ram, would my ram be fast enough to receive at that speed?
  
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3. Re:"transmit a two-hour movie in 0.5 seconds"? by tjansen · 2005-10-30 04:17 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Depends on how they did that. If they managed to transmit it that fast by compressing it down to 20 kByte, maybe the MPAA won't care.
2-Hour Movie Units? by Ignominious+Cow+Herd · 2005-10-30 03:05 · Score: 2, Funny

How many Volkswagon-sized, Libraries of Congress is that?

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1. Re:2-Hour Movie Units? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-30 05:26 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Well, one terabyte is actually only 0.18 Libraries of Congress, so in Standard Units the transfer rate of this was about 217733 Libraries of Congress per fortnight.
Maximum transmission units by totallygeek · 2005-10-30 03:07 · Score: 5, Funny

could you bump your mtu to 2937498723498, I don't want to keep fragmenting these...

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that's nothing. by Enjoi · 2005-10-30 03:07 · Score: 5, Funny

If you throw a 500GB harddrive fo the empire state building, it's not only faster moving data that this, the data is accelerating.

Beat that, japan :)
1. Re:that's nothing. by fossa · 2005-10-30 04:01 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Ha! My aerodynamic hd enclosure is still accelerating while yours is stuck at terminal velocity.
2. Re:that's nothing. by SamSim · 2005-10-30 06:22 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You get quite a bit of packet loss like that, you know.
  
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"Honey, did you pick up that new movie?..." by thrillseeker · 2005-10-30 03:10 · Score: 2, Funny

Ahhh ... just a second ... yep - I've got it right here.
more importantly by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-30 03:12 · Score: 1, Funny

its clear we are running out of porn to choke this available bandwidth
1. Re:more importantly by Universal+Indicator · 2005-10-30 06:44 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I'm waiting for Vivid Entertainment's new line: Slutty Bandwidth Chokers Volumes 1-90. The box tagline could read "Come on baby, I want to suck your bandwidth!"
2 hr movie in 0.5s by Gja · 2005-10-30 03:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Now we humans just need a way to watch that 2 hour long movie in 0.5 seconds
1. Re:2 hr movie in 0.5s by HermanAB · 2005-10-30 06:23 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  That is easy - just skip the commercials with your MythTV box.
  
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Re:Where's the beef? by earnest+murderer · 2005-10-30 03:45 · Score: 2, Funny

Or the size of the file. I mean, under the right circumstances my lan can transfer a two hour movie faster than that.*

*Bitrates may vary.

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Mabey by then I could get DSL in my area. by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-30 04:12 · Score: 4, Funny

Mabey by then I could get DSL in my area.
Re:Where's the beef? by fornaxsw · 2005-10-30 05:17 · Score: 2, Funny

That "story" is ridiculously short.

hehe and I still didn't read it....suckers.
oooow, by Dr.+Spork · 2005-10-30 05:22 · Score: 4, Funny

0.5 seconds? But I want it now!