100-Petabit Internet Backbone Coming Into View

lostinbrave notes laboratory work that could lead to long-haul network cables capable of exceeding 100 Petabits per second.kilometer. "Alcatel-Lucent said that scientists at Bell Labs have set an optical transmission record that could deliver data about 10 times faster than current undersea cables, resulting in speeds of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer. This translates to the equivalent of about 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer, or sending about 400 DVDs per second over 7,000 kilometers, roughly the distance between Paris and Chicago. ... The transmissions were not just faster, they were accomplished over a network whose repeaters are 20 percent farther apart than commonly maintained in such networks, which could decrease the costs of deploying such a network."

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Blu-Ray

[daybot]

...or sending about 400 DVDs per second

That's just about enough to cope with today's worldwide porn output, but what happens when the industry switches to Blu-Ray?

Re:Blu-Ray

[0110011001110101]

>>Why not put that money into a decent wardrobe and haircut, and you know, actually socialize and get a girlfriend or boyfriend?

umm, so to be clear... will this girlfriend or boyfriend help me find more porn??

Too bad

[Spazztastic]

Too bad nobody in the USA will ever get that. Even if we were to get a connection that fast, it would have a 20GB/mo cap so the second you stream one HD flick on Netflix, your cap is filled and you're stuck at a measly 768kbit/sec down until the first of the month.

Re:Too bad

[aynoknman]

people bitching about slow connections here would be like me bitching in a NASA thread about how it isn't fair that NASA has crafts going 20,000 MPH while my bicycle is still stuck at a max of about 30mph.

Don't know about you, but I want to go to the grocery story at 20,000 MPH, and be able to bring back a container full of stuff too!

Re:Too bad

[nacturation]

Don't know about you, but I want to go to the grocery story at 20,000 MPH, and be able to bring back a container full of stuff too!

If you live so far from the grocery store you need a 20,000 MPH craft to get there, it's time to start growing your own.

Do you know where one can purchase grocery store seeds?

Re:Who cares, solve the last mile already.

[Capsy]

The wonders of 2mbp/s internet.

Re:second.kilometer

[dsginter]

Maybe old hat to you network engineers, but I was previously unfamiliar with "bits per second.kilometer".

This is equivalent to 43 LoC/HI (Libraries of Congress per hour-inch).

already have this at home

[Anonymous Coward]

I've had 100-Petabit/decade internet at home for a while now.

Re:Confusing units

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, lets see: 12 parsecs per hogs-head/bushel^fortnight = 3 onions.

That faint "thump" you heard in the background

[Opportunist]

That was MPAA chairman Dan Glickman fainting and hitting the floor 'cause nobody cared enough to catch him.

Re:second.kilometer

[jeffb (2.718)]

c mol / LoC m = (3x10^9 m/s) mol / (10 TB) m = 0.00003 mol / byte s. I'm at a loss for how to interpret this dimensional measure. Maybe it has something to do with the number of monkeys needed to type the works of Shakespeare in a specified amount of time.

Conversions?

[theJML]

This is the US... Can we get this in Libraries of Congress/mile?

Re:second.kilometer

[sharkey]

Can you convert that to rods and hogsheads please? I'm a little lost.

Re:Who cares, solve the last mile already.

[RealGrouchy]

Well, you can solve about 38% of the "last mile" problem if you switched to metric. Then you'd only have to worry about the last kilometre.

- RG>

Re:second.kilometer

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe another article headlined "kdawson swallows inflated AlcaLu marketing fluff hook, line and sinker" would be in order?

Now that you mention it, most kdawsom stories can be adequately described by stating "kdawsom swallows". I propose a tag.