News - BT and Huawei achieve real-world 3Tbps fibre speeds

[Biscuit]

Another test that highlights the need to install FTTP for a true 100 year infrastructure, instead of stringing out these poxy upgrades over copper.

[MrComputerSaint]

data transmission took place over a 359Km fibre link

^ that's impressive I thought, I thought it might be 20 miles or something.

[Tunnah]

Because many more people understand the concept of a HD film over the real size of a dual layer DVD.

As technical folks we can relate to the measurements of data, it's something we understand, however most people have no idea what the sizes mean, so they use real world applications of them.

[rabbid]

Wonderful but how about getting even more resources into improving the speed for those of us in the UK still struggling to get a decent Broadband service!

because they want us to migrate to their new great fibre service! and our reason? because the old broadband was so slow!!

[anselhelm]

100 very poor quality pirated cams. Not HD movies. 3Tbps = 384 GB/s....100 would mean 3.8GB each, or less then a single layer DVD.

3.8GB is a LARGE file size for a 1080P x264 or x265-encoded movie.

That'd be a large size for a 3 hour full HD movie.

[peterb]

Er...ever heard of encryption?

[PeteSmith]

What are the usage caps on that connection, what's the bandwidth throttling policy (sorry, traffic management policy)