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100 Gbps Via Ethernet
Doc Ruby writes, "As reported at GigaOM, 'Infinera has bonded 10 parallel 10 Gb/s channels into one logical flow while maintaining packet ordering at the receiver,' bridging 100-Gbps ethernet over 10 10-Gbps optical WAN links. Infinera's press release is here. Further from GigaOM: 'The experimental system was set up between Tampa, Florida and Houston, Texas, and back again. A 100 GbE signal was spliced into ten 10 Gb/s streams using an Infinera-proposed specification for 100GbE across multiple links. The splicing of the signal is based on a packet-reordering algorithm developed at [UC] Santa Cruz. This algorithm preserves packet order even as individual flows are striped across multiple wavelengths.' We're all going to want our share of these 100Gbps networks. The current network retailers, mainly cable and DSL dealers, still haven't brought even 10Mbps to most homes, though they're now bringing fiber to the premises to some rich/lucky customers. Are they laying fiber that will bring them to Tbps, or will that stuff clog the way to getting these speeds ourselves?" Rumors say that what runs over Verizon's FiOS is ATM, to support their aspirations for triple-play.
FIOS is cheaper than cable internet here, if you can get it. Just stick with "lucky", unless you're going to say anyone with broadband is "rich".
I live in a condo, so no luck for me though.
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I'd be happy with something between GigE and 10GigE... seems like they do all of this wonderful shit for the top tiers while the rest of the world gets by with 'fast Ethernet' or GigE at best.
Worse the prices beyond GigE are nothing short of heart stopping.
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Hrhr, that was fun
I'm paying 65 euro (=83US$) a month for 2mbit/512kbit ADSL. And that's with 15GB/month download limit (although fair use, which means they turn it off at 50gb). And that's the cheapest option. And btw, I live in a city -.-
So what's preventing them from taking 10 of these newly created 100GbE channels, applying the same technique, and producing 1TbE?
-Tommy
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it was called shotgunning.. it was a hack on how ISDN did it with multi chanels.. it worked aslong as your isp supported it and you had the phone lines.. i know because i used to do 3 of them for a total of a 156k (52k*3) - never got 56k on any of the damn lines.
bonneded DSL was neet too but required all your lines to be F1 pairs and they had to go to the same DSLAM, better to use the F1 pair as either a T1/fractional Frame or PRI - but they charge good money for that.
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This (Infinera) is the company that makes complete wavelength-division multiplexed optical systems on a chip. They have demonstrated 40 Gbps x 40 channels = 1.6Tbps in development and currently have many 10 Gbps x 10 channel networks deployed by companies such as Level 3 (which first came online in 2004.) Also, the limiting factor in single optical channel transmission is not the transistors at each end. The real problem is the laser modulation at the transmitter as well as the response of the photdetector at the receiver. GaAs or InP transistor circuits at either end are more than capable of handling speeds in excess of 40Gbps if the laser generation/detection ever gets there.