Read more.Capable of transferring 1GB in 0.2 milliseconds or 5.4TB in a second.
Read more.Capable of transferring 1GB in 0.2 milliseconds or 5.4TB in a second.
That speed is sort of incomprehensible to me... It's so fast!
What's great about this technology is it can utilise existing fibre networks so it won't need half the planet to be ripped up to get the faster speeds.
I bet speedtest.net would break if you did a speedtest with those transfer speeds
If only we could get those kinds of transfer speeds inside a PC, forget pushing electrons around and switch to photons.
Excellente!
But, how many centuries till England gets it ?
Is this actually a single fibre? Confused as the end of the article says it requires a new fibre which has 7 fibres in one... Surely thats cheating or I managed to develop 40Gbps ethernet cable by running 4 cables in parallel...
Even though the new cable has 7 threads, it takes up exactly as much space as a normal one. In comparison, if you managed to squeeze 4 10Gb ethernet cables into the size of one (retaining reliability and such), then yes, you would have developed a 40Gb ethernet cable
Dareos (03-08-2014)
meanwhile some people I know are still struggling with a 2meg connection. That's the world we live in.
Just misleading with the first sentence saying 'Researchers ... have announced that they have achieved transfer rates of 43Tbps over a single optical fibre.' when its actually seven fibres. Also if the previous record was 32tbps then going to 43tbps doesnt seem amazing if they could have multiplied by 7! But maybe Im just being picky!
On hearing the news governments round the world were quick to react. South Korea announced plans to have it installed to all homes by 2015. Japan would follow with 95% completion in 2016 to the main islands. The British Government announced a 5 year review period for lobbyists to persuade them it wouldn't be needed, and that 2MB/s adsl is fine for rural communities. The US government turned a blind eye while telecom companies agreed to not compete with each other in the interests of preserving market share. Meanwhile the German government said potentially they might use it, but only if google stop spying on them, and provided they had the "right to forget" anything that might or might not have happened in the 1940s.
Dareos (03-08-2014)
I live in a world where my router measures above the 63.5 db attenuation mark for my 1mbit copper broadband. Otherwise known as 175 or less kb/sec. (Thanks, BBFN, really feeling the help)
I am too far behind the tb/s mark to comprehend its existence.
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