Siemens Reaches 107 Gbps Data Transfer Record

prostoalex writes "Reuters is reporting on Siemens engineers reaching 107 Gbps data transmission record over a fiberoptic cable, and expects the technology to be on the market within a few years: "The test, 2.5 times faster than a previous maximum transmission performance per channel, was done in cooperation with Germany's Micram Microelectronic, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications and Eindhoven Technical University of the Netherlands.""

Comments

Excellent, but...

[JoshJ]

If this technology is proprietary (which it likely will be), the lock-in could be rather vicious, especially for the businesses that would likely be the first ones impacted, and when it does get around to the average citizen, they could give horrible service, drop people, restrict their bandwidth, etc- and they'd be able to get away with it because of the monopoly they'd get over the high speed.

Children of lock-in.

[Anonymous Coward]

"The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications"

I assume that's related to the institute that gave us the "proprietary" MP3?

Re:How viable is it over longer distances?

[MrJynxx]

Telecom companies dont' usually have fiber that long because of the risk of breaks and really costly repair processes, it's not because of degradation. Also the distance doesn't really matter(remember, how do you think the contients are connected? single link fiber), because if it's a good cable the data should travel at the speed of light. It depends on the recieving ends how fast your can process it.

Also the infrastructure for telecom is quite large, you'd be surprised how much stuff is running underground.

Re:Thats nothing

[Adeptus_Luminati]

... Imagine the Blue-ray version! /// ...Imagine the dual-sided Blue-ray version! /// ...Imagine a bewolf.. no wait that doesn't apply, unless it's in Russia.

That's a lot of DVDs

[ksw2]

Siemens said in a statement it had processed data using exclusively electrical means at 107 gigabits per second -- roughly two full DVDs per second [...]

Damn, I can barely keep up with the 5 DVDs at a time I get from Netflix.

Re:How viable is it over longer distances?

[3.14159265]

sigh... of course they usually have fiber, that's the only way you've got to carry those kind of bitrates! What do you think Verizon and AT&T are getting? CAT5e?
sigh... of course the distance matters, the higher the span length the higher the attenuation and dispersion!
sigh... if they say they can do 107Gb/s that's because they can fire up the laser on one side and get it with an acceptable bit error rate at the other side. These tests are not based on sending something to /dev/null!

Re:107Gb/s = 13,696 MB/s = 13.375 GB/s

[Hes Nikke]

The byte is the amount of data you could store on a single coin if you had a code worked out placing it either heads up or heads down. Ones and zero's.

almost

The bit is the amount of data you could store on a single coin if you had a code worked out placing it either heads up or heads down. Ones and zero's. A byte would therefore need 8 coins.