World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second - Gizmodo Comments

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

LordieLordie — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:09:37 EDT

BitTorgasm!!!

LordieLordie

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

erikislame — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:02:01 EDT

to digidandy:

you're right, i should have clicked the read link rather than complain.

still, it's neddlesome that the meat of the story is obscured by tech illiteracy. by a paid tech writer, no less.

...

and really: don't we read gizmodo because it's a fun filtering of bland RSS feeds?

erikislame

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jaiku — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:00:10 EDT

Let us not all holding our breath for anything even remotely like this to enter our homes and offices. Lucent demonstrated 64Gb/s over a single fiber back in '99, a major mux/demux accomplishment at the time. Everyone believed that bandwith would soon be so plentiful as to be nearly free. Really helped the stock bubble get bigger faster. But is there a single fiber in your house today? Except for some Verizon markets, not really significant penetration yet. Alas, bringing fiber over the last mile is major expensive and unless and until there is an arguably clear revenue capture stream that will amortize the cost over no more than 20 years, installation will be slow. So many, many billions of dollars of market valuation and investor cash just disapeared in the long-haul fiber boom that the utilities are still scared. What do we have to show for it today? 3 cent a minute phone calls to Europe. Whoop-di-fuckin-doo...

jaiku

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superbad — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:01:47 EDT

Eh, Comcast will still throttle it back to 6 Mbit/s anyway.

superbad

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mikki — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:34:30 EDT

I too shall be picky and say that should be a lower case "b" in the heading.

The one thing you also have to remember is that although your connection may be insanley fast it's very unlikley your harware can write that fast.

A typical website (amazon, google, etc) doesn't really noticably load any faster if you're on a 1Mbit or 8Mbit connection. You only really notice it on file downloads and very heavy sites. And downloading 10gigs of porn will only be as fast as the data can be pushed throught your hardware.

mikki

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digidandy — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:51:35 EDT

If you're going to be lame, erikislame, couldn't you just follow the link to the source for this story?

The one on PR Newswire where it says "Alcatel-Lucent Achieves a World Record 25.6 Terabit/s Optical Transmission"?

Thanks.

digidandy

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Holo — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:53:29 EDT

Hey guys, I was actually at the conference (OFC) where they announced this today! I'm sorry if I dissappoint some of you know, but its bits - not bytes we're talking about.

Reading from the post-deadline paper they submitted I can also tell that the transmission distance was 240 km and that the number of wavelength channels was 160. Each channel contained two polarization-muxed 85.4 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK signals. So, basically, they used a bunch of magic tricks (pol mux and DQPSK) to squeeze out a spectral efficiency of 3.2 bits/s/Hz together with a really wide (160 ch x 50 GHz) optical spectral bandwidth to beat the old record.

The funniest thing, however, is this: NTT also tried to beat the record, but they only got to 20.4 Tb/s!! In their face!

Holo

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erikislame — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:28:14 EDT

so, since the giz is allowing flunky tech journalism, has anyone answered the question of what this story states yet? In re: Is the new transfer record 25.6 TB or Tb?

(and ps: jesus christ. can you not allow posts like this? Where you fuck it all up?)

erikislame

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

Jesse in Japan — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:47:14 EDT

At what point will we be able to transform our bodies into a string of data and teleport to distant rooms, like, say, the bathroom. Because I'm too lazy to get up a walk.

Jesse in Japan

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HDC — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:03:03 EDT

Betcha a trunkful of 500 Gb disks is still faster and more cost effective.

HDC

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EpicCentury — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:24:44 EDT

Actually protozoider, I'm on a T3 connection right now. It's 45 Mbps solid. They connections go even higher then T3 also. So basiclly yes, we have more then 16 Mbps. What you are refferring to is average top end home user's speed.

EpicCentury

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

heyyou — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:00:03 EDT

itll be usefull for when they come out with 3D/hd movies or something, but damnn. but music would probobly be all like 1Mb/s... crazy

heyyou

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

Duffman454 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:57:57 EDT

As leep1 said b=bit and B=byte however for all of you saying that 25.6 Tb isn't as fast as you think it is, put it this way, 25.6 Tb = 3.2 TB.

So you tell me when was the last time you transfered 3.2 TB, let alone in one second.

Duffman454

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

Trenta — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:11:59 EDT

25.6 TB/s huh? Does that come with a 10,000,000 rpm hdd?

Trenta

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

GotMex? — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:05:38 EDT

My only question would be... is that enough for MUHD TV. (Mega-ultra-high-defininition)

GotMex?

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

vokey25208 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:02:58 EDT

Just to put things in perspective...

25.6 TB = 49,230 hours(5.61 years) of uninteruppted video or 1,523,790 hours(174 years) of uninteruppted audio.

vokey25208

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

jkantor — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:36:01 EDT

There's an inverse relationship between local storage requirements and bandwidth: the more bandwidth you have, the less local storage you need and vice versa. When effectively unlimited bandwidth is available you eliminate the need for almost all local storage - and thereby minimize one of the main factors contributing to both size and expense of electronic devices.

jkantor

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fightcopyright — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:30:01 EDT

I'm sure this technology is for backhaul and undersea cables, not home users.

Besides companies make the most money when they can sell equipment with modest improvements every two years or so. There's no real incentive for such a massive speed increase when they can milk it for several upgrade cycles.

fightcopyright

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

aec007 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:03:12 EDT

This will kill RIAA.

Think about it... in about 10 minutes of P2P networks the entire collection of world music will be shared and downloaded planewide.

On second thought... If I was Alcatel/Lucent I start assigning bodyguards to all key employees... RIAA mob bosses might start wacking people and ask questions later...

Run Forrest, Run !

aec007

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Tristanjh — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:00:28 EDT

25.6 terabits
3.2 terabytes
26214.4 gigabits
3276.8 gigabytes
26843545.6 megabits
3355443.2 megabytes

per second.

It's still pretty fast.

Tristanjh

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

Demial — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:56:04 EDT

And I was all excited about getting Shaw's Nitro connection today... Oh, well. The real travesty is that I should have known that this would happen.

Demial

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

FrankenPC — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:54:02 EDT

So, what happens if a phone pole with a bundle of these fibers fals down and snaps the line?

Do laser beams from hell cut through innocent bystanders?

FrankenPC

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

diverguy — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:45:16 EDT

That's a lot of porn really fast.

diverguy

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

alexz — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:12:38 EDT

SLAP THAT: TB=TERA BYTES !!!!!
Anywho, speed is very impressive, but don't forget that your bottle neck will always be your hard drive!!!! Which still cannot write faster than 20-50MB/sec
HEHEHEHEHEHEHEH

alexz

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Crescent — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:00:38 EDT

And ppl are saying new HD formats are safe because they are too large in size, ALU simply says:

IN YOUR F*#**NG FACE!!!

Crescent

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

misteron — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:58:37 EDT

Sheesh..........at that speed we will never be able to leave the pc to make a cup of tea.

misteron

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

koy — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:55:31 EDT

now to invent a hdd that can cope with such speeds :p

koy

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

leep1 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:52:59 EDT

shouldnt the title be
"World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6Tb per Second"

b= bits
B=Bytes

right? in either case... wow

leep1

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

StackyBotrus — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:51:17 EDT

Bit and byte. TWO different things. Honkey please... This is not as fast as you think.

StackyBotrus

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

navinjohnson — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:48:04 EDT

when i think of the possibilities this presents for me porn collection, my head explodes.

navinjohnson

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

BayTraveler — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:44:59 EDT

And to think I was happy with my cable modem. slow piece of crap.

BayTraveler

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

ab3 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:43:55 EDT

ME WANT ME WANT!

ab3

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

OniMirage — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:42:10 EDT

you mean dial up isn't cool anymore?

OniMirage

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

HiroNakamura — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:37:22 EDT

Yeah, but I bet it loses 3tbps per inch of cord.

HiroNakamura

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

strider_mt2k — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:30:37 EDT

Oh boy!
LAN party at Alcatel/Lucent!!!

strider_mt2k

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

EMoShunz — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:23:26 EDT

@ Cobolman2
Absolutely true!
heck, each bit of data at that point will probably have 1mB of encryption on it.

EMoShunz

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Benman — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:22:26 EDT

carrier pigeon ftw!

Benman

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

ugadawg — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:18:39 EDT

Holy shit that's fast. What sucks is that we have copper as the go-between medium. That throttles it back down to the sucky speeds we have in the present day. Now if I can have all fiber media (switches, routers, and the like) then I'll be a happy camper.

ugadawg

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aquaosx — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:18:21 EDT

I'm faster.

aquaosx

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

combat chuck — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:16:06 EDT

Someday, many moons from now, one of my future grandkids will complain about how it took two seconds to download the super hi-res version of season 1 of whatever the hell show kids will be watching in the future, and I'll start in: "Back in my day, we sat and waited half an hour for a 4 meg mp3 to download, and we liked it."

Now I feel old.

combat chuck

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nate4096 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:12:29 EDT

*bangs head on desk* terabits. Even the dude in the Sonic commercial knows the difference between a bit and a byte.

nate4096

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protozoider — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:08:53 EDT

Even if we had 1tbps speeds, you would only get about 2mbps because 90% of the country would still be running on slow broadband. Most people don't even know you can get up to 16mbps connections now.

protozoider

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Cobolman2 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:06:47 EDT

Not to worry.

By the time transfer speeds this high are available to you and I, the files we'll me moving around will be so large it will *still* take the same amount of time it does today.

Hell, 1200 baud modems were once blazin' fast.

Cobolman2