Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps 2550km

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday February 28, 2008 @01:41AM 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."

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Doesn't matter by Lumpy · 2008-02-28 01:56 · Score: 0, Troll

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!

Now with rocketsmell!

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