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Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps 2550km
Stony Stevenson writes "The goal of 100 Gbps Ethernet transmission is closer to reality with the announcement Wednesday that Alcatel-Lucent researchers have recorded an optical transmission record along with three photonic integrated circuits. Carried out by researchers in Bell Labs in Villarceaux, France, the successful transmission of 16.4 Tbps of optical data over 2,550 km was assisted by Alcatel's Thales' III-V Lab and Kylia, an optical solution company. The researchers utilized 164 wavelength-division multiplexed channels modulated at 100-Gbps in the effort."
What's that in Library-of-Congresses per fortnight?
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Would this qualify as 11?
Surely there must be some incredibly processing power behind transmission speeds like this? Anyone one have any idea?
That's a lot of cows.</walken>
Carousel is a lie!
That's just BURST throughput. Depending on factors like time of day, how many other users there are, and environmental conditions, throughput may drop as low as 33kbps. And we do NOT filter bittorrent.
Just check your TOS agreement. It's all right there.
In other news: American telcos wonder how French providers are able to afford research and development without additional funding from a tiered billing billing scheme that is needed to advance the science in the United States.
With the ever-predicted bandwidth crunch always just around the corner, can existing cables be reused just by replacing the signaling equipment at substations with this? If we don't have to lay all new cables - just upgrade the nodes - then upgrading to these bandwidth capacities on our current networks would be a cinch.
Shh.
"i have invented a way of downloading porn a million times faster!"
"164 wavelength-division multiplexed channels modulated at..."
how very Star Trek of them.
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No broadband ISP will upgrade even if 100Gbps was cheap, they are happy with keeping everyone in their low speed high latency world. But they will start using more buzzwords and charging more!
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Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Tbps speed, and over 100 Gbps. Something is wrong here.
Slim article... How long would it take to error check that much data?
on Another note... What did they do with all that Pr0n once it got to the other end?
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But what is the latency involved in a system like this? Right now I get about 25000kbps and that is plenty for me, but what I really need is reduced latency for real time simulations.
No matter how much speed they create, they will still be subject to the Law of Diminishing Porn Returns, which states:
For download rate n, my demand for new porn will require me to download at a rate of n+1.
Where I the only one thinking a truck filled with DVD's when the headline said optical data?
Why do we need 100Gbps-e to arrive across 2550Km before it's "reality"? All I want is 100Gbps-e over maybe 100m, or even 10-30m to start. Since there's no other local interconnect faster than 10Gbps-e, I'd even settle for 100Gbps-e across 1m, for interconnecting in my rack without changing my software that all depends on ethernet between hosts.
What's surprising is that I can get 10Gbps-e for something like $50, but nothing faster for any higher price (except multiple 10G-e cards). AFAICT, there's nothing in the engineering pipeline, like the usual faster interconnects for supercomputers that can be ported to PC buses the way SCSI and optical ethernet (etc) were. Everyone's waiting on 100Gbps-e.
I know that the parties funding the 100Gbps-e research are telcos like Alcatel, which have WAN requirements for thousand-Km hops, and governments encouraging the industry at the top end. But broadband projects around the world are planning to roll out 1Gbps and even 15Gbps fiber to the home, which would completely saturate a 100Gbps trunk after much shorter neighborhood distance to a hub than 2500Km, even in the most rural areas. But what about all the LAN vendors, which have a real market for 100Gbps-e with only a few dozen or hundred meters required between nodes?
Can't we just declare success and start buying some fast ethernet without having to satisfy the telcos' 10 year plans, too?
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Well the optical transmission would go nearly the speed of light, but I'm not sure how fast the transmitter and detector can keep up with splitting and recombining 164 channels of data.
I'm sure this is being looked at as a means of an intercontinental backbone, rather than something coming into your house.
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Jeepers, that's really cool.
Meanwhile, I can't even get FIOS service in Philadelphia, one of our major cities, despite my keen desire to purchase it.
That's all well and good, but when can I get my BROADBRAIN connection?
BTW, my submission capcha is "monogamy" WTF?
the title says 100 Gbps
the article says approx. 16 Tbps
and the last sentance says how close we are to creating 100 Gbps ethernet and describes how the terabit link was created using multiplexed signals at 100 Gbps.
so what the heck am i missing, because im confused as hell
feh, lots of things are pointless, this one too
...real time simulations. Translation: HaloAs the splitting combining is purely passive, it introduces negligable additionaly latency, say in the order of femto seconds.
Part of the Ethernet spec is to wait 9.6 microseconds after the medium appears to be idle before sending, then resend if it collides. Light moves about 3 kilometres in that time. Making an Ethernet of 2550 km pratically guarantees nothing but collisions. So while this is a hunkin' heap of net, it's not Ethernet.
Hilarious... The fortune that I had at the bottom of the comments for this artcle:
There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Did someone plan that?
The movie industry just shat a brick.
swift kicks in the groin, when all you get at the house is a "blazing" fast speed of 26.4 Kbps on dial up. Thank you Verizon, fucking thank you... ISDN is not even an option where I live.
who gives a shit about these speed records, I could give a flying fuck less in these higher education bandwith pissing contests.
bottom line is, here I am still sitting at comcast, throttling my shitty bandwith upload and download and can't get decent speeds at some times. will comcast every adopt the technology in the article? HELL NO
fuck these speed pissing contents.
Let me see if I got this right... They made 164 lights of different color blink very fast and very far. Why can't Slashdot summarize things better?
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