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New Data Transmission Record — 14 Tbps

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-140-hi-def-movies dept.

deejne writes to alert us to a new bandwidth record: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone has announced data transmission at a rate of 14 terabits per second over a single optical fiber. The paper claims the previous record was "about 10 Tbps." In the new experiment, NTT sent data over 160 kilometers (nearly 100 miles) of optical fiber, in 140 channels of 111 Gbps each.

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  1. 140 channels of 111 Gbps each by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And still nothing worth watching.

  2. Preparing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    vista.windowsupdate.com?

  3. Misread title by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought it meant 14 ThePirateBays per second...

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    1. Re:Misread title by doofusclam · · Score: 4, Funny
      I thought it meant 14 ThePirateBays per second...


      Given an hour with that link it's exactly what i'd use it for.
  4. land speed record by tverbeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's still nothing compared to a semi loaded with DVDs traveling at 70mph.

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    1. Re:land speed record by EnderWigginsXenocide · · Score: 4, Funny

      The internet isn't a truck you can't just keep dumping things on it and expect it to go. It's a series of tubes and they are getting filled up!

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    2. Re:land speed record by bcat24 · · Score: 4, Funny

      And believe me, the ping times for IP-over-semi SUCK!

  5. download speeds by KG6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    and yet I'm still downloading at a measly 300 kbs.

  6. We're talking about tubes by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is the internet, not the interstate.

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    1. Re:We're talking about tubes by krisp · · Score: 4, Funny

      but if every vehicle was filled with dvds and hard drives, wouldn't that make the interstate another information super-highway?!

  7. Re:Okay, its about time... by EnderWigginsXenocide · · Score: 4, Funny

    Quote:

    Well, I remember back on my 14.4 modem... those text pages loaded like the wind. I was on top of the world... Then those damned pictures started cropping up on websites. Pictures on the internet? Ha! Then came the 56.6k modem which showed those pictures who were boss. No problems. Oh wait, online gaming?     File sharing ? Cable and DSL save the day. More than adequate

    Reply:
    I beg to differ. I have [cough] friends that download movi^H^H^H^H^H content from the internet, and some dvd rips^H^H^H^H^H^H^H database files can be larger than 4GB! Even at a good (cheap) DSL line of 1KBPS it still takes quite alot longer to download content than it would take to go to blockbuster^H^H^H^H^H^H^H the office and pick up physical media with the data on it.

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  8. Ha! That is nothing! by Tamerlan · · Score: 5, Funny

    One of the russian computer trading companies easily topped that. The box with 20 400GB HDDs fell from the shelf 2m high. Total data transmission rate was

    20*4*10^11*8/sqrt(2*2/9.8)~=10^14 bps or 100 Tbps

    As you see if you have enough money to burn you may easily scale that number.

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  9. Re:swallows by Dolly_Llama · · Score: 4, Funny

    African or European hard drives?

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  10. Disputed record by kd3bj · · Score: 4, Funny

    I once threw a box of 120 Gig tapes into a dumpster. I think there were about 200 tapes in the box.
    I admit the distance wasn't far, but the burst rate was 24 TBytes/sec.

  11. Future means faster speeds by chrisinsocalif · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someday our kids will look back at us and wonder how the hell we surfed porn so slow.