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Terabit Ethernet Inches Closer To Reality
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from Australia, Denmark, and China have combined efforts to show the feasibility of terabit-per-second Ethernet over fiber-optic cables. The solution involves a photonic chip that uses laser light for switching signals, and a form of the exotic material type, chalcogenide, or arsenic trisulfide."
Not that I would ever use a terabit connection for porn... but uh, when's that coming out again?
This is my sig.
Now I can finally get started on building my holodeck.
Tera ethernet... 5-25 gig monthly caps... "I used my monthly cap in 31.65 seconds..UH O..."
You can have a repeater every 3 inches. Simple.
Face your daemons!
"...a form of the exotic material type, chalcogenide, or arsenic trisulfide.
Whew, for a minute there I was worried we were going to use some hazardous materials.
Too bad my bullshit detector only operates at about 500 words per minute.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is usually crucified.
If you have, say, a bundle of fiber running across the Pacific that would cost you 9,334 bazillion dollars and a battle with the giant enemy crab just to upgrade; being able to increase its capacity just by upgrading the hardware on each end is a very attractive proposition. This applies, to a lesser degree, in all but short run situations.
This isn't exactly destined for workstations in the near future(heck, neither is 10GigE, and that is more or less commodity-off-the-shelf stuff by now); but there are applications where higher speed per fiber could well be desirable.
The solution involves a photonic chip that uses laser light for switching signals, and a form of the exotic material type, chalcogenide, or arsenic trisulfide."
Once you have the photonic chip installed, you will need to realign the deflector shield to output a graviton pulse through the arsenic trisulfide to create an anti-tachyon pulse which will modulate itself based upon the resonant frequency of the transport medium, thus allowing for longer distance transmittal of data than is currently possible.
Granted, it will take 15 years and research team of a hundred to complete, but it is doable.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I suppose you forgot about internet back bone links. Terabit Ethernet should hopefully enable Tier 1 ISP's to provide really fat pipes to ISP's so we can finally get more bandwidth. The bigger the backbones the faster our broadband can be. Well at least that's my fantasy. 100mbit boradband should be cake walk with tubes that fat.
...that we are inching our way towards the metric system.
You can have a repeater every 3 inches. Simple
You can have a repeater every 3 inches. Simple
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Obviously you forgot your "NO CARRIER".
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It's a pity that technology like this never gets cheaper.
The article doesn't say how far they can send the terabit signal, only that the receiver requires 5 cm of fiber to split the signal into lower bandwidth pieces. Presumably the distance between sender and receiver is longer than that.
Actually, that is a new Chinese product where the pesticide IS the baby formula. Now with more melamine flavor!
"But this one goes to 11!"