Scientist develop photonic chip that can transmit 1.84Pbps

[Jan]

Powerful photon chip can send all the Internet's traffic in a second

A team of scientists from the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen have managed to transmit a record 1.84 petabits (1,840 terabits) of data per second using a single computer chip, New Scientist reports.

The amount of data transferred is equal to downloading 230 million photographs in a second and higher than the rate of traffic that travels through the entire Internet's backbone every second.

 

[wernervn]

They can literally download the internet

 

[Fuzzbox]

In a second.

 

[OCP]

How much radiation does it generate?

Asking for a friend

 

[SpiderGear]

When will it be available on Openserve?

 

[Petec]

Negative ping! I waaaaaant!
Get 30 kills in, before I even log in to the game

 

[Vorastra]

Powerful photon chip can send all the Internet's traffic in a second

A team of scientists from the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen have managed to transmit a record 1.84 petabits (1,840 terabits) of data per second using a single computer chip, New Scientist reports.

The amount of data transferred is equal to downloading 230 million photographs in a second and higher than the rate of traffic that travels through the entire Internet's backbone every second.

I assume the point of this is to make equipment cheaper by making them denser in terms of how much data they can handle. Less equipment needed to do the same job.

 

[hj007]

So throughout goes exponential. But how do you reduce latency? Speed of light is too slow, can we get latency down by 10x or more? Will definitely need it to communicate (play Doom multiplayer) beyond earth ...

 

[oldhat]

But how do you reduce latency?

Quantum entanglement could be the key.

 

[2026]

So throughout goes exponential. But how do you reduce latency? Speed of light is too slow, can we get latency down by 10x or more? Will definitely need it to communicate (play Doom multiplayer) beyond earth ...

Playing Doom on Mars would be epic.

 

[McGuywer]

A team of scientists from the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen have managed to transmit a record 1.84 petabits (1,840 terabits) of data per second using a single computer chip, New Scientist reports.

The amount of data transferred is equal to downloading 230 million photographs in a second and higher than the rate of traffic that travels through the entire Internet’s backbone every second.

“You could say the average Internet traffic in the world is about a petabit per second. What we transmit is two times that,” said study lead Asbjørn Arvad Jørgensen.

Scientifically that is not correct. 1.84 is not two times.
I am sceptical.