Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps Over 1,500 Mi

[Sabre]

The More You Know{TM}

FiOS, you ain't got nothing on this: Alcatel-Lucent researchers in France have successfully transmitted optical data at an absolutely blazing speed of 16.4 Tbps over a distance of over 1,500 miles.

The transmission was done with the goal of achieving a 100 Gbps Ethernet connection, which, as I'm sure you'd agree, is a goal we can all get behind. All sorts of fancy, confusing-sounding technologies were used to get the blazing optical transmission, including "a highly linear, balanced optoelectronic photoreceiver and an ultra-compact, temperature-insensitive coherent mixer." I kept telling them that they just needed a more balanced optoelectronic photoreceiver! I'm glad they finally listened.

We're still pretty far from seeing speeds anywhere near this in consumer connections, as the technology being worked on here will go towards the internet's backbone rather than in a line to your house. But I mean, honestly, at what point is bandwidth so fast that it doesn't matter if it gets any faster? When we're talking about speeds that'll allow you to download a full HD movie in 15 seconds versus 3 seconds, you really start to lose the right to complain about it. Those 50 Mbps connections we'll start seeing offered to consumers in the next few years should be just plenty for the time being, no

[schvin]

wow, awesome sauce.

[Sabre]

What I want to know, is what the hell was the system at both ends that was able to transmit/receive that quickly. AFAIK, no RAM technologies can transmit that quickly. Maybe a RAID 0 array of PC3-12800 DDR3-SDRAM?

[Sabre]

Actually, looks like XDR or XDR2 is much faster.

[complacent]

What the are you working on at work to be looking into such things...?

[Sabre]

[schvin]

heh...

[zaxrex]

What the are you working on at work to be looking into such things...?

Like all internet applications:

Porn

But what I want to know is how much does a ultra-compact, temperature-insensitive coherent mixer cost?

My coherent mixer is temperature sensitive and large. Damn, there goes that porn again...

[Mr Kleen]

coherent mixer:
2 oz Vodka
2 oz Tequila
Fill with Red Bull
1 splash Lime juice

[sirwilliam]

The More You Know{TM}

FiOS, you ain't got nothing on this: Alcatel-Lucent researchers in France have successfully transmitted optical data at an absolutely blazing speed of 16.4 Tbps over a distance of over 1,500 miles.

The transmission was done with the goal of achieving a 100 Gbps Ethernet connection, which, as I'm sure you'd agree, is a goal we can all get behind. All sorts of fancy, confusing-sounding technologies were used to get the blazing optical transmission, including "a highly linear, balanced optoelectronic photoreceiver and an ultra-compact, temperature-insensitive coherent mixer." I kept telling them that they just needed a more balanced optoelectronic photoreceiver! I'm glad they finally listened.

We're still pretty far from seeing speeds anywhere near this in consumer connections, as the technology being worked on here will go towards the internet's backbone rather than in a line to your house. But I mean, honestly, at what point is bandwidth so fast that it doesn't matter if it gets any faster? When we're talking about speeds that'll allow you to download a full HD movie in 15 seconds versus 3 seconds, you really start to lose the right to complain about it. Those 50 Mbps connections we'll start seeing offered to consumers in the next few years should be just plenty for the time being, no

Hey...as you get older, every second counts, right? I just wasted 12 seconds of my precious life waiting for a bootleg <cough>...I mean legit HD movie to download.

That is crazy speed, though...pretty awesome! And I still like my FiOsOsOssissippi!

coherent mixer:
2 oz Vodka
2 oz Tequila
Fill with Red Bull
1 splash Lime juice

[The Gray Ghost]

The terabit mux has been around for a few years now.....NEC has a cool system that is very similar...

Mark