Download speed record 14 terabytes per second

[BassAce 10+ year member]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7878.html

NTT breaks speed record for fiber data transmission
10/2/2006 10:38:50 AM, by Eric Bangeman

Fiber optic cable has become the Bonneville Salt Flats of the Internet, with universities, labs, and corporations vying for the fastest data transfer rate crown. Late last week, the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation laid claim to the speed throne with a 14 terabits per second transmission over a single 100-mile fiber optic line. That number easily surpassed the previous record of 10Tbps and demonstrates how far we've come in just three years, when we wrote about a 5.44Gbps transmission.

To put the transmission into perspective, 14Tbps is enough bandwidth to download 140 high-definition movies in a single second or deliver all of YouTube's daily traffic in under 15 seconds. It's also not likely to happen again in the near future outside of a lab or a single, dedicated line like this. However, NTT's experiment does offer some hope for increased broadband speeds, even if they fall short of the stratospheric heights seen in its demonstration.

Although much of NTT's network consists of fiber with a 1Tbps capacity, the company says that it is rapidly approaching capacity due to the increased popularity of broadband. NTT's experiment was noteworthy in that it offers hope for increasing capacity on current fiber networks by more efficiently using the available spectrum and some clever use of amplifiers.

While broadband users in Japan and South Korea enjoy 1Gbps connections, the fiber upgrade is just getting started in the US. Even when the fiber does make it to US homes, speeds top out at 50Mbps down and 5Mbps up in the case of Verizon's new FiOS network. While significantly faster than current offerings, Verizon is limited by the need to reserve significant bandwidth for its TV programming. AT&T customers aren't so fortunate, as the company's decision to run fiber to the node—instead of to the home—means that they will be limited to 6Mbps.

More efficient use of current fiber networks is possible, as NTT's experiement demonstrates, but being able to download even a single HD movie in the blink of an eye is still a ways off.

I would download the whole roe.com site with that connection.

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[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

That's all? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsdown.gif.d22f25895e9b40f2300c953691dacfa2.gif

 

[mtlhead 10+ year member]

can u imagine how much **** you could get with that connection??????????//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/up2something.gif.dd110ecf3ae4b76050d87598f2f8de7c.gif

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

Psssh, my commodore 64 does that without even breaking a sweat....

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

can u imagine how much **** you could get with that connection??????????//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/up2something.gif.dd110ecf3ae4b76050d87598f2f8de7c.gif

Probably too much...literally. You would get bored with having everything and have to resort to the nasty stuff.

 

[SAG3 5,000+ posts]

and i get around 150 kbps down on torrents.......f-ing bullshit.

 

[kaos806 10+ year member]

my ghetto *** wont live to ever ever see that in my house

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

i'd settle for 50 megs per second, being as thats about as quick as i could store it anyway.

 

[SyKo13 5,000+ posts]

I been on dial up for 5 years......

1MB/Sec would be heaven to me.......

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Also, it's 14 teraBITS not bytes //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

Still, according to google...

14 terabits = 1 835 008 megabytes

nG

 

[BassAce 10+ year member]

Also, it's 14 teraBITS not bytes //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
Still, according to google...

14 terabits = 1 835 008 megabytes

nG

My bad, being an EE student I should know this. 1byte = 8 bits.

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

HDD's cant write taht fast, so its irrelevant..

for now

 

[Big Dee 10+ year member]

Also, it's 14 teraBITS not bytes //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
Still, according to google...

14 terabits = 1 835 008 megabytes

nG

Yeah, bytes are 8 times bigger than bits, big difference, but it's still incredible.

The part that really amazes me is that home users in Japan and South Korea have 1 Gbps connections, wow. That's 119 megabytes/second and the theoretical speed limit of ethernet cables. One advantage of having a tiny rich country I guess.

 

[hzsogood 5,000+ posts]

.... where i live we actually just got a DSL because im just out of city ( broadband limits ) and 3 MB is a pretty nice thing when ur used to 56k, By example on 56 k it would take about 25-30 minutes or so to dl 1 song at around 4-6kbps , oppposed to 30 seconds @ around 200kbps.. But then again i live in minnesota , and were pretty much last in line to get new technology in anything

 

[AJ²06 5,000+ posts]

I been on dial up for 5 years......
1MB/Sec would be heaven to me.......

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif HOW do u deal with that?