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Siemens Reaches 107 Gbps Data Transfer Record

Posted by samzenpus on from the greased-lightning dept.

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.""

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  1. Hooray! by PixieDust · · Score: 4, Funny

    And everywhere, lonely geeks rejoice at the decreased download time for the favorite pr0n!

  2. The problem is... by TrisexualPuppy · · Score: 4, Informative
    And everywhere, lonely geeks rejoice at the decreased download time for the favorite pr0n!
    This will not matter much, at least on the individual's machine. Most hard disk drives transfer on the order of 25MB/s. This fiber transfer is applicable only for supercomputing links and Internet backbones. Good luck finding a 107000000kbps stream ;)
    1. Re:The problem is... by Barny · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yes it will actually, this is a bigger pipe, and since the internet is a series of pipes..

      But really, if an Aussie ISP (internode for instance) has just upgraded from 3Gb/s to around 6Gb/s, how much would it benefit them if they could just sell off most of the fibre they are using currently and just run one at 107Gb/s?

      As for 25MB/s, a newer HDD will easily reach around 40-50MB/s, added with the popularity of NAS and small raid systems most good PCs can suck almost 70MB/s (560Mb/s).

      Of course, with Australian broadband being lucky to get (until just recently) above 1.5Mb/s this is rather moot.

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  3. See also by Sampizcat · · Score: 4, Informative

    See also
    http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20 961327%5E15306,00.html

  4. And Windows Still Takes... by sycodon · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...fifteen looong seconds to list the contents of a folder.

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  5. So, if Microsoft Zune uses this technology... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then Steve Ballmer can say something like "I can squirt Siemens"

  6. Re:How viable is it over longer distances? by MrJynxx · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  7. Tacky joke... by nick_davison · · Score: 5, Funny

    Record?

    Given the amount of information DNA encodes... that there's, what, a complete set in every single sperm?... I think my Siemen can squirt more than 107Gbps of data per second down "a series of interconnected pipes" than their Siemens can.

    Of course, that's of minimal practical use as a) Those are burst figures, I'm damned if I can sustain them and b) I read Slashdot which means my odds of finding a compatible interface are pretty minimal.

  8. Re:107Gb/s = 13,696 MB/s = 13.375 GB/s by Hes+Nikke · · Score: 4, Insightful
    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.
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  9. Re:Children of lock-in. by ahillen · · Score: 4, Informative

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

    Well, if you want to call an MPEG-Standard "lock-in". I'm sure most users don't feel very "locked-in", it is probably the most widely supported digital audio standard, I would say. Sure, it is proprietary, and you have to pay license fees, but at least anyone can use it who wants it.

    Nevertheless, you are wrong. It is not the same institute that gave you MP3. That was the Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen (http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/index.html). This is the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute in Berlin (http://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/english/). There are about 60 institutes of the Fraunhofer Society in Germany (http://www.fraunhofer.de/fhg/EN/profile/index.jsp ), with widely varying research topics. More info as usual on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_Society).