1 Tbps download speed anyone??

[bludvl_x19]

Thats right, 1Tb. in a second.
think of how much pr0n you could download....:slayer::slayer::slayer:

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2675781.htm

The video is at the top of the page, transcript below.

 

[idaho1]

Thats right, 1Tb. in a second.
think of how much pr0n you could download....:slayer::slayer::slayer:

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2675781.htm

The video is at the top of the page, transcript below.

Niiice. My xbox live will be a lot quicker LOL.

Although won't this mean all households in the UK will need to be changed with regards to phone lines?

 

[Stu DemonD]

Although won't this mean all households in the UK will need to be changed with regards to phone lines?

UK? This is in Australia.

 

[bludvl_x19]

UK? This is in Australia.

Yup, fibre-optics is the norm here, copper is only remaining in about 5% of landlines IIRC

 

[colin79666]

Routing technology has a long way to go to be able to cope with transmissions that fast.

 

[306maxi]

Yup, fibre-optics is the norm here, copper is only remaining in about 5% of landlines IIRC

Are you sure? Most houses at least in Perth have copper to the door and fiber running from the exchange or from the RIM. Even if you can have 1tb from your home to the exchange backbone networks will need a helluva lot of upgrading for this to work at all.

 

[bludvl_x19]

Are you sure? Most houses at least in Perth have copper to the door and fiber running from the exchange or from the RIM. Even if you can have 1tb from your home to the exchange backbone networks will need a helluva lot of upgrading for this to work at all.

Oh yeah, I had forgotten that

I got a 5% figure from a mate who works for Telstra, but now I'm not so sure that it was the copper wiring that it was related too...

 

[306maxi]

Oh yeah, I had forgotten that

I got a 5% figure from a mate who works for Telstra, but now I'm not so sure that it was the copper wiring that it was related too...

Doofus I wouldn't have thought there were even 5% of houses with fiber to the door but then again I've been living in the UK for the last 3 years so haven't been keeping up with things. I hear Telstra is going to be split up? Whoopeeee

 

[bludvl_x19]

Yup, splitting the retail section (Telstra shops and the like) from the communication part. See if you can find the dive that the share price took after it was announced

 

[manthatkidisscrewed]

It's pointless. Unless the server that you are downloading from as a 1tbps upload connection (which is seriously seriously unlikely) then you won't get much/if any faster than what you currently have!

 

[bludvl_x19]

I think you are all missing the point...

This is research that is being done in order to speed up computers around the world, eventually. The rig in the video is just a proof of concept that the idea actually works. The next step is to make it cheap enough to be put into mass production, and one day we might have photons flying around in our computers instead of electrons.

 

[arc]

Routing technology has a long way to go to be able to cope with transmissions that fast.

well yeah.. if you watch the video, the photonic chip is the new routing tech - it's not just a trail of a new transmission medium.

It's pointless. Unless the server that you are downloading from as a 1tbps upload connection (which is seriously seriously unlikely) then you won't get much/if any faster than what you currently have!

it's not pointless at all, and it's not about an end user downloading a 1tb/s (which is way faster than any bus or drive avaible to a home user (it's 131 072 megabytes per second, consider an expensive flash based drive will struggle with more than 500mb/s)). Its about improving the backbone of the net, replacing the slow electronics of routers with a much quicker technology.

I found the video really interesting, thanks.

 

[manthatkidisscrewed]

I agree replacing the slow electronics of routers with a better and faster technology is beneficial but it's just not going to happen. Companies still struggle to afford decent kit as it is. If you take the Cisco kit for example they are still selling some lines that are FastEthernet and not Gigaethernet to the businesses that won't pay the prices that they demand! For this to be beneficial then it would have to be mass produced to the point that most/all equipment is using the new technology which would involve replacing everything from cables to general rack hardware and that is certainly not likely within our lifetime in my opinion. Although hopefully I am wrong because it would be nice to see such a milestone for myself.

 

[arc]

we're not talking about an office building network here, we're talking ISP / data centre / nodes. The main links that sit on the end of the fibre optics that link the continents etc together.. ie the BACKBONE.

 

[manthatkidisscrewed]

I know what a Backbone is. But the Backbone is not just the ISP it is the link between the ISP's and the net servers all over the world. I can't imagine for one second that this new hardware will just plug into all of the legacy connections we already have. they will need to replace all link related hardware and this is going to cost more than I imagine companies will pay. Especially at the moment!

 

[arc]

right but you made the comparison that these companies are installing 100mb/s switch gear over 1gb/s kit.. which is gibberish when you think about it.

 

[jnoiles]

Speaking as someone who works for a telco/managed services company all I can say is hooray! Customers can now bitch at a terabyte per second! Woo!

 

[manthatkidisscrewed]

right but you made the comparison that these companies are installing 100mb/s switch gear over 1gb/s kit.. which is gibberish when you think about it.

not really? I was making the point that if companies are still not able to justify the cost of paying for the faster kit then how are they ever going to justify the money for this new technology? Unless it is offered at the same or lesser cost to entice people to make the change over which is going to be very unlikely then it will take years and years to filter through. The amount of big businesses that I have gone to and seen that are still running on seriously old kit that is dying yet they still refuse to replace it is ridiculous. And it is all because most companies simply don't give a **** about their IT. Unless it's broken they totally forget about it and even when it's broken they still don't want to spend the money on it to replace it they would rather fix it. It is a joke! I can't see this switchover taking place within the next 10 years or within the next 25/50 to be honest...certainly not to the extent where it is everywhere anyway. But that is just my opinion.

 

[306maxi]

not really? I was making the point that if companies are still not able to justify the cost of paying for the faster kit then how are they ever going to justify the money for this new technology? Unless it is offered at the same or lesser cost to entice people to make the change over which is going to be very unlikely then it will take years and years to filter through. The amount of big businesses that I have gone to and seen that are still running on seriously old kit that is dying yet they still refuse to replace it is ridiculous. And it is all because most companies simply don't give a **** about their IT. Unless it's broken they totally forget about it and even when it's broken they still don't want to spend the money on it to replace it they would rather fix it. It is a joke! I can't see this switchover taking place within the next 10 years or within the next 25/50 to be honest...certainly not to the extent where it is everywhere anyway. But that is just my opinion.

Companies charge by the amount of traffic they route. If a comany can upgrade and take care of 10x more traffic then they're going to make money out of it.

You're making the mistake of comparing IT practices within a small company to those of companies which make a living out of being on the cutting edge.

 

[jnoiles]

Companies charge by the amount of traffic they route. If a comany can upgrade and take care of 10x more traffic then they're going to make money out of it.

You're making the mistake of comparing IT practices within a small company to those of companies which make a living out of being on the cutting edge.

You'd be surprised how tiny the margins are on bandwidth. Upgrading to more bandwidth doesn't automagically bring the equivalent revenue.