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."

Comments

"transmit a two-hour movie in 0.5 seconds"?

[Anonymous Coward]

You guys sure know how to bait the MPAA here, don't you?

Re:"transmit a two-hour movie in 0.5 seconds"?

[whathappenedtomonday]

I guess it means that pr0n fuels innovation once again.

Re:"transmit a two-hour movie in 0.5 seconds"?

[Freexe]

But what about ram, would my ram be fast enough to receive at that speed?

Maximum transmission units

[totallygeek]

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

that's nothing.

[Enjoi]

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 :)

Re:that's nothing.

[SamSim]

You get quite a bit of packet loss like that, you know.

2 hr movie in 0.5s

[Gja]

Now we humans just need a way to watch that 2 hour long movie in 0.5 seconds

Mabey by then I could get DSL in my area.

[Anonymous Coward]

Mabey by then I could get DSL in my area.

oooow,

[Dr. Spork]

0.5 seconds? But I want it now!