I want THIS! 2.56 Tb/ps

[Dakota]

2.56 Tb/ps!! Rock on!!! It's multi-plexed, but I'd still settle for the lowly, one-channel 40Gb/ps! :D

Source URL: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020322/tc_nm/telecoms_lucent_dc_3&cid=581

Bell Labs Says It Shatters Data Delivery Record
Fri Mar 22, 3:51 PM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bell Labs, the research arm of Lucent Technologies Inc. said on Friday that it has doubled the distance and the speed at which data can be sent over long-haul telecommunications networks.

The development will eventually make it cheaper for telecommunications service providers to send more data on fiber optic networks over longer distances.

Bell Labs said that, in a demonstration, it sent a massive 2.56 terabits of data per second over a distance of 2,500 miles, the equivalent of sending the contents of 2,560,000 novels every second across the United States.

One terabit is a little over 1 trillion bits of data.

The previous record was 1.6 terabits per second over 1,250 miles, or half the distance.

Bell Labs achieved the 2.56 terabit-per-second speed by sending 40 gigabits-per-second of data over each of 64 separate channels in fiber optic cable, which uses light waves to carry data.

It used dense wave division multiplexing, a technology that allows service providers to push bigger chunks of data onto a single strand of optical fiber.

The capacity and distance improvement was made possible by use of a coding scheme called differential phase shift keying, which Bell Labs has developed for high-capacity communications.

Lucent's current long distance networking product, the LambdaExtreme, cannot support the higher data speeds but a spokesperson said the Murray Hill, New Jersey-based networking company will incorporate the improvements into future products.

[BaLa]

lol
what kind of computer do you have?

could you use all of that speed?

[glc1]

LOL. I don't think this the kind of connection purchased by end-users, more like ISPs, backbone providers and very large corporations.

[BlastU]

If I had that kind of speed, I'd download the internet. :p

[Dakota]

Yeah well, obviously no one has the kind of money to pay for a connection like that, but it is significant and it'll trickle down to us eventually in the form of higher speeds and lower costs and we will all like that side of the coin. :)

[glc1]

Yeah, but the way ISPs do business (residential ones anyway), would it really make a difference?

Anyway, how long has testing been going on now?:)

[jarablue]

It is a shame really. All this good technology and the ****ing corporate hogs will never let the customer see it. They have been working on this prolly for over 10 years. This is what will happen. Big tech=Better and cheaper for big comapnies, big companies see hmm maybe we can charge consumers more for the tech that we are getting for even less now and make even more money! Yeah that's the ticket! I hate the fact we have all this fiber and none of it is going to good use.

[Dakota]

glc1: Yes. It will make a difference eventually. I don't know how long the testing has been going on.

jarablue: If you think anyone is going to develop this kind of technology and give it away for free, well, that's just nuts. That's why they do things like this: To make money. That's what it's all about man.

Eventually some of this speed will trickle down to us, but obviously not all of it, and yes, we will have to pay for it, just like we pay for everything else.

If none of the technology developed trickled down to us, we'd all still be using 300 baud modems.

[fredra]

Hey SilverD
I saw the beginning thread so I thought I would pass this on... go here (http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/D,D,B/20020320/gtspeed?tf=tgam%252Frealtime%252Ffullstory_Tech.html&cf=globetechnology/tech-config-neutral&slug=gtspeed&date=20020320&archive=RTGAM&site=Technology) to read a report of what is happening north of the border.
:D

[TeenInternetAddict]

With 2.56 tbps both ways, I can download webpages, email, etc alot more faster than with 3mbps down and 256kbps up. And I can also run servers because with this 256kbps cap, it's very impossible! I'd even take 1 tbps both ways right now because I do have a faster cpu like every geek on earth, and what geek do want faster download and upload speeds? But there's nothing faster coming for another 40 to 50 years, probably when I'm a old fart in a nursing home when something faster like fiber optics, gigabyte internet, powerline, etc. gets to my area:( No offense to the senior citizens in the nursing homes, but it's sad and true with technology moving at its glorious slow rate, I'd probably won't see anything until 2050 or later:rolleyes:

Give me 1 tbps right now, I'd even pay $90 per month for the service, or give me something a whole lot more faster than what the cable or dsl companies offers here:) And the next thing, I wish they have residential 2.5mbps dsl service here but they don't, you can only get 1500/128 and that's it. For 6000/384 dsl service, it costs $179 per month. Hurry up, 2.56 tbps internet connection, get to my area because I need faster speeds and I'm starving for faster speeds.

Signed,

A geek that needs faster speeds!

[BaLa]

Originally posted by TeenInternetAddict
Give me 1 tbps right now, I'd even pay $90 per month for the service, or give me something a whole lot more faster than what

you're kidding right
this will prolly cost you around $100,000/month..
if not more...

[glc1]

Originally posted by TeenInternetAddict
And I can also run servers because with this 256kbps cap, it's very impossible! Now why do you suppose a residential IPS would impose such a cap? If you want to run servers, get a business connection.

Originally posted by TeenInternetAddict
Hurry up, 2.56 tbps internet connection, get to my area because I need faster speeds and I'm starving for faster speeds.LOL. Do you really think this is intended for residential use or will even be sold as an internet access package to businesses? It will most likely be used by backbone providers and other service providers requiring that kind of bandwidth.

[thechemgeek]

ok...but if you're sending that kind of information from point "A" to point "B", what kind of space do you use to save it? a physical hard drive?

introducing *theme music* my new Seagate Barracuda 15 TB Drive....

heh. oh well...jk.

[crazyjw1971]

"Warning! You have reached the end of the internet. You have seen all there is to see. Please Disconnect. Now!"

LOL

[Diamyo]

The keyword in their article is "Optical Fiber"

It used dense wave division multiplexing, a technology that allows service providers to push bigger chunks of data onto a single strand of optical fiber.