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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."
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.
Or how many 747's full of DVD's?
If you pay your taxes you support terrorism!
Tbps speed, and over 100 Gbps. Something is wrong here.
Surely if an ISP adopted this, they'd have people signing up left right and centre. Wouldn't it be awfully attractive to their target audience?
This is the reason 100gpbs isn't being considered for lan use. It just isn't feasible at this point.
Stick a thousand machines on each end, and you'll understand why 100Gbps is needed.
>Interrupt loads can be greatly reduced by switching to a polling-driven architecture. See FreeBSD.
New API (NAPI) takes a mixed approach, read: [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_API ], and for more information: [ http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Net:NAPI ].