Researchers create world’s fastest internet connection
French researchers announced recently that they have been able to transfer data optically at a speed of 16.4Tbps (that’s terabits per second, or about 17 billion kilobits per second). Yes, that’s over 11 million times faster than today’s DSL connections.
At these rates they were able to transfer 2.05TB or about 100 HD movies every second. The researchers believe their work could eventually lead to 100Gbps ethernet connections.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this is that the transfers weren’t happening over a few inches or feet. On the contrary, the data was traveling over a whopping 1,500 miles. With this the researchers have set a world record for bandwidth capacity by distance.
The research, performed at Bell Labs, involved several new technologies such as a “highly linear, balanced optoelectronic photoreceiver and an ultra-compact, temperature-insensitive coherent mixer.” Yeah, we have no idea what that means either.
So what will come of all of this? Bell Labs claims that this research will “pave the way to the future of communications.” Most importantly, the researchers’ work shows that the potential for higher bandwidth is present, and we just need to learn how to utilize it.
Tags: bandwidth, bell labs, internet
March 18th, 2008 at 12:37 am
How to know whether this is real product?
March 18th, 2008 at 1:55 am
how long till it become available….
the pirates are smiling to this
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March 18th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Frogs 1, Rest of World 0
March 18th, 2008 at 8:54 am
lolol the picture of that internet wire is quite misleading for its diameter was probably way bigger
March 18th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I can finally finish download this one song I wanted!!!!
March 19th, 2008 at 1:03 am
so basically my ISP will be able to charge me $25,000 a month for this type of connection, and knowing my ISP it will be down most of the time. (Rogers sucks!!!!)
March 19th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Ide like to know what they were transferring to and from at these speeds, sure wasn’t any hard drive I can buy at the store.
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
tbizz .. Thats a damn good point you make there . computer manufacturers will seriously have to step it up if that sort of technology is ever used in home pc’s
August 10th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
@ spanklord … it was probably actually way smaller considering it was a single fiber optic cable