Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps 2550km

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the someone-compute-the-porntential dept.

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."

13 of 126 comments (clear)

  1. Translation please? by davidwr · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's that in Library-of-Congresses per fortnight?

    --
    Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
    1. Re:Translation please? by CRCulver · · Score: 4, Funny

      Is that a laden European or African library of congress?

    2. Re:Translation please? by suso · · Score: 2, Funny

      HD DVD, Bluray or regular?

    3. Re:Translation please? by u-235-sentinel · · Score: 4, Funny

      What's that in Library-of-Congresses per fortnight?

      Well... if you are Concast they will give you those numbers in terms of photos or mp3's or emails downloaded in a month.

      Personally I like to know in terms of how many 8 track tapes I can download a month. ;-)

      --
      Has Comcast disconnected your Internet account? Same here. You can read about it at http://comcastissue.blogspot.com
    4. Re:Translation please? by thechao · · Score: 4, Funny

      I saw "LoC" and thought "Lines of Code"; my second thought was that you have some *mad* job security.

  2. So, this speed, on a scale of 1-10... by r_jensen11 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would this qualify as 11?

  3. ObWalken by Saint+Aardvark · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's a lot of cows.</walken>

    --
    Carousel is a lie!
  4. Don't get too excited. by geminidomino · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Don't get too excited. by holyspidoo · · Score: 5, Funny
      Now offering the fastest 16.4 Tbps service* available anywhere

      *1 Gig upload/download monthly limits apply

  5. maybe its just me by the_mind_ · · Score: 5, Funny

    "164 wavelength-division multiplexed channels modulated at..."

    how very Star Trek of them.

    --
    You feel sleepy. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise.
    1. Re:maybe its just me by pizzutz · · Score: 5, Funny

      "164 wavelength-division multiplexed channels modulated at..."
      how very Star Trek of them.

      I'm sorry Captain, but we canno' reach these speeds with time-division multiplexing. the phase coils canno' handle it!
      --
      GE/CS/IT d- s: a- C++++$ UL+++ P-- L++++ E W+++$ N+ o? K- w---() !O M- V- PS+ PE(++) Y+ PGP+++(+) t+++ !5 X++> R- t
  6. Doesn't matter... by ScaryMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. Re:Sending "optical data" by thwack328 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Senator Stevens? Is that you?