We're in for an information revolution.Engineers in Japan just shattered the world record for the fastest internet speed, achieving a data transmission rate of 319 Terabits per second (Tb/s), according to a paper presented at the International Conference on Optical Fiber Communications in June. From...
Awesome potential. Meanwhile, in the US, people struggle to get broadband speeds at home..
Wut? I honestly don't understand how you can hit those kind of numbers with modern technology, and I'm also surprised by the other numbers they mentioned. I don't think NASA is actually getting 400 Gb/s speed--at least not for most things.
Yeah, but like... what are they connecting from/to? And how?Tying 300000 1Gbs cables together and saying "look, it's 300 Tbs!" isn't really meaningful.
Wut? I honestly don't understand how you can hit those kind of numbers with modern technology, and I'm also surprised by the other numbers they mentioned. I don't think NASA is actually getting 400 Gb/s speed--at least not for most things.
Optic cables in a bundle?
Yeah, but like... what are they connecting from/to? And how?Tying 300000 1Gbs cables together and saying "look, it's 300 Tbs!" isn't really meaningful.
https://interestingengineering.com/japan-shattered-internet-speed-record-319-terabits
Couldn’t access the paper itself, but apparently the used just four cores and multiplexing out of this world.
I can't find it now, but they managed to get 1Gb/s on a barbed wire fence with multiplexing decades ago. Did find this though, which is cooler
these are the big cables you put under oceans and between major cities