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    News - Researchers achieve optical fibre network speed of 43Tbps

    Capable of transferring 1GB in 0.2 milliseconds or 5.4TB in a second.
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    Re: News - Researchers achieve optical fibre network speed of 43Tbps

    Quote Originally Posted by HEXUS View Post
    5.4TB in a second.
    But I want it now

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    Re: News - Researchers achieve optical fibre network speed of 43Tbps

    That speed is sort of incomprehensible to me... It's so fast!

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    Re: News - Researchers achieve optical fibre network speed of 43Tbps

    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

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    Re: News - Researchers achieve optical fibre network speed of 43Tbps

    If only we could get those kinds of transfer speeds inside a PC, forget pushing electrons around and switch to photons.

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    Re: News - Researchers achieve optical fibre network speed of 43Tbps

    Excellente!
    But, how many centuries till England gets it ?

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    Re: News - Researchers achieve optical fibre network speed of 43Tbps

    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...

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    Re: News - Researchers achieve optical fibre network speed of 43Tbps

    Quote Originally Posted by explicitlyrics View Post
    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

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    Re: News - Researchers achieve optical fibre network speed of 43Tbps

    Quote Originally Posted by OilSheikh View Post
    Excellente!
    But, how many centuries till England gets it ?
    England?
    Reasons to vote yes,singular thinking.

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    Re: News - Researchers achieve optical fibre network speed of 43Tbps

    meanwhile some people I know are still struggling with a 2meg connection. That's the world we live in.

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    Re: News - Researchers achieve optical fibre network speed of 43Tbps

    Quote Originally Posted by benegerton1985 View Post
    meanwhile some people I know are still struggling with a 2meg connection. That's the world we live in.

    First world problems.

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    Re: News - Researchers achieve optical fibre network speed of 43Tbps

    Quote Originally Posted by Zerote000 View Post
    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
    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!

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    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.

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    Re: News - Researchers achieve optical fibre network speed of 43Tbps

    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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    Re: News - Researchers achieve optical fibre network speed of 43Tbps

    Quote Originally Posted by Infernal Cheese View Post
    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.
    Ah but if a tree falls in a forest and there is no-one there to hear it, does it make a sound? Or for today's audience, if media rich websites require a 30Mb/s connection, but people only have 200kb/s do those websites really exist at all?

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