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Internet traffic requirements double every two years. With streaming video becoming more and more popular, not to mention the expectations for Internet traffic thanks to cloud computing and mobile phone use, we're not surprised. The solution lies in fiber optics, which is based on glass fibers (the size of human hair) that carry signals throughout the world by sending light over long distances. The efficiency breaks down when routers are used to convert the optical signals to electrical ones and then convert the signals back again for transmission. The capacity of fiber optics cables needs a boost to stay up to speed with our increasing Internet diet. Fiber optics revolutionized telephone communications and researchers are hoping it will do the same for Internet speed.
"We're going to need much faster networking to handle the explosion in Internet traffic and support new large-scale applications like cloud computing," Daniel Blumenthal, Director of TOEC, said in a statement. "Our goal is to make energy-saving technologies that will allow applications and the underlying networks to continue to scale as needed. You could think of it as greening future networks, and the systems that rely on those networks." To achieve Ethernet at 100Tbps, fundamental improvements in the underlying technologies will be required, he adds. "We're going to need dramatic breakthroughs across multiple disciplines, not only in the core Ethernet technologies but in Ethernet-based networking and in the engineering and measurement systems used to develop and test these new technologies."
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forget cat5e try cat>9000
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I wonder how fast it will come to PCs here in my country. Our fastest speeds here cant go faster than 3Mbps - 6Mbps.
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pixelstuff said:
Currently the commonly used backbone technology tops out at about 0.786 Tbps, so a full 1 Tbps would be another step. Even if it was implemented in a LAN, it will be a while before a single computer could make use of that much bandwidth. However 100 computer talking to another 100 computer would. So the technology is definitely worth developing.
Here is the wikipedia entry on currently optical carrier speeds.
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Considering that 10Gbps ethernet speeds haven't rapidly been adopted for local networks, I don't imagine 1Tbps speeds will suddenly become standard for anything except major back bones at least for a couple of decades after release.
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Timonius said:
Very cool. But like they said all the other technology has to catch up. If you can build a 1000ft wide boat it still won't fit through a 100ft wide canal.
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Australia is following the lead of Korea, and several other advanced asian/european countries, with the NBN -- essentially they are just replacing the century-old copper technology with fibre wires right to your door. if you want to upgrade the network from 100Mbps to 1Tbps or beyond, it should be a simple issue of replacing the old exchange switches and your old router with a newer model.
AFAIK there are no 'theoretical limits' on the fibre itself.
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I do believe 1tbps is actually 1000g not 125g if I'm not mistaken.
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As others above have said, who cares about theoretical when the reality is everything sucks. My parents live 6 miles north of a town of 2000, their options are dialup or satellite, and no satellite isn't a real broadband option.
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Untrue. The petabyte hard drive is expected to be released in 2012 at around $750.00, HDDs aren't going anywhere.
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Its really mouth watering technology. Where can i get one? When to be precise
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I am not sure whether it would be possible till 2015 or not. Because there are still more than half of north american internet users who has maximum speed 4 Mbps. Lot of European country has more fast internet than us. But if it become possible then PC should be able to handle that speed. More over getting technology is not important but they should also start building infrastructure for this. As per one study, By this year end internet users will reach to 1 billion and this number are increasing very rapidly. If we keep this in mind then we should also start focusing on internet infrastructure keeping in mind the requirement and growth of internet users.
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Even though this sounds good, I think they're a bit too optimistic.
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ChrisG683 said:
Awesome in theory, but sadly test speeds != consumer speeds. Unless the government makes a really big push to have America catch up in the global internet speeds by smacking these retarded corporations around, it ain't gonna happen anytime soon.
Feel sorry for us Brits, we are lagging behind even further!
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Well sounds to good to be true, but i don't mind, let the scientists do the work. For now i'm pretty happy with my 100mbps, but I wouldn't mind having 1tbps
BTW I doubt that hdd's will be replaced by ssd's, more likely the new hybrid disks will become more popular. I don't want to pay 40% more for 10s faster loading OS.
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I agree. Its not whats possible in the lab, but its the technology that the government and the companies are willing to invest in thats the main thing.
I think that kind of speed is quite a bit far away still..
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Recipe7 said:
1 Tbps is more than enough, I can't imagine anything larger for home use, unless the technology can keep up with it. Webcams for instance can't manage those type of speeds! Let's hope those top of the line webcams also go down in price when these speeds come out.
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St1ckM4n said:
Neojt said:Man can you imagine at what speed Spam will get to your email !! haha
If this comes true in game lag will be gone for ever
Speed and ping are two totally different things.
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First, WHERE THE HELL IS WIRELESS POWER????
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DjKraid said:
By 2015 HDDs will be gone. And SSD's will probably start to become obsolete compared to the next great thing.And what would that be / look like..? 0_o
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So Comcast's bandwidth cap could theoretically be reached in just two seconds (at 1Tbps). Would be amusing.
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So Comcast's bandwidth cap could theoretically be reached in just two seconds (at 1Tbps). Would be amusing.
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Well if they manage to do waht they say i might cry a little =) But even if it happens i wonder if the other part of the computer will be able to follow
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All these theoritical speeds are great to read and dream about but the sad reality is that a lot of internet users in countries around the world still get by with dial-up connections and so-called "broadband" connections which aren't broad in the first place. Here I am, using a laggy 1-Mbps connection to the internet. I'll be perfectly happy if the ISP ugrades me to 10 or 20 Mbps 5 years from now.
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sadly here in Canada we only have 2 compagny ffor the internet 1 for cable other dsl and both got stupid low Bandwith limit so if u go faster you just brake it sooner and pay a ton in over
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<sigh> As we wait in the US for broadly available (and cheap) 100mbit connections.
The dream goes on...
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That sounds very promising although 1Gbps ethernet still isn't taking advantage in regards of our broadband speeds.. I am one of the lucky few in the UK to have 40Mb fibre optic broadband, but most people are sitting well under 8Mb. The ethernet at 1Gbps is hardly in any devices, you still done get most home routers with gig lan and the broadband speedsdont need anything over 10Mbs
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