100-Petabit Internet Backbone Coming Into View

[Ludjer]

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/29/1228220/100-Petabit-Internet-Backbone-Coming-Into-View

"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."

 

[LazyLion]

Cool Beans! Can this tech be retroactively fitted onto existing fiber?

 

[ponder]

People simply do not understand fiber technology. the limitations are based on the electronic termination equipment and not the fiber.

 

[Rosaudio]

When will telkom be offering this service?

 

[Jagtiger]

When will telkom be offering this service?

ETA 2340 A.D.

 

[ponder]

ETA 2340 A.D.

You know jack about telkom. Their trasmission infrastructure is pretty high tech.

 

[Jagtiger]

You know jack about telkom. Their trasmission infrastructure is pretty high tech.

The talk was about providing this service to house of average Joe, not about one at their infrastructure.

 

[Sting]

The talk was about providing this service to house of average Joe, not about one at their infrastructure.

Average Joe would never be able to afford the terminating equipment that they would have to self-provide.

This was an experiment in a research lab. It will be years before a commercial product is available.

The concept is not new, they are just expanding the boundaries. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength-division_multiplexing

 

[tco21]

The news page directs to this thread for the article discussion. I thought it always linked to an RPM-created thread?

 

[LazyLion]

The news page directs to this thread for the article discussion. I thought it always linked to an RPM-created thread?

no, sometimes they will link to an already active thread.

 

[tco21]

Interesting, never seen that before.

 

[Obronie]

But..... If I attached 500 BlueRay's to an eagle and let it fly, will That not be faster?

 

[STB101]

Winston's

100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer.

Hmm. Now let's put that into a local perspective: how many Winston's does that equate to?

 

[tco21]

That's one big-a$$ eagle. Use a peragrine falcon instead - it's the fastest animal on Earth.

 

[FlatspinZA]

But..... If I attached 500 BlueRay's to an eagle and let it fly, will That not be faster?

The data-dove was just an exercise in PR - nobody would seriously entrust sensitive data to a bird.

 

[Stickfigure]

So when will we be getting one of these?

 

[Sting]

Not in our life-time!

 

[KERU]

I will be happy if I can get a few extra megabytes.

 

[JoSorc]

I have fibre to my house.

 

[Creag]

This transmission experiment involved sending the equivalent of 400 DVDs per second over 7 000 kilometers, roughly the distance between Paris and Chicago.

Eish! That's like send almost an entire DVD rental store to London in a couple of seconds.

I was secretly hoping this was some sort of advanced test pilot project by Telkom for new broadband they were planning to start rolling out in SA

Alas! My hopes and heart was dashed!