Scientists create internet cables 50,000 times faster than superfast broadband

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...ternet-cables-50000-times-faster-than-superf/

The speeds could transfer a series of Game of Thrones in HD in less than a second

John.

 

"Scientists at University College London have developed new fibre-optic equipment that can send data at 1.125 terabits per second."

That's a new article, but that is about 1/250th of the speed of those attained 2 years ago here:

255 Tbps: World’s fastest network could carry all of the internet’s traffic on a single fiber
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...d-carry-all-the-internet-traffic-single-fiber

"A joint group of researchers from the Netherlands and the US have smashed the world speed record for a fiber network, pushing 255 terabits per second down a single strand of glass fiber. This is equivalent to around 32 terabytes per second — enough to transfer a 1GB movie in 31.25 microseconds (0.03 milliseconds), or alternatively, the entire contents of your 1TB hard drive in about 31 milliseconds.

To put 255 Tbps into perspective, the fastest single-fiber links in commercial operation top out at 100Gbps, or 2,550 times slower. 255 Tbps is mindbogglingly quick; it’s greater, by far, than the total capacity of every cable — hundreds of glass fibers — currently spanning the Atlantic Ocean.

In fact, 255 terabits per second is similar to — or maybe even more than — the total sum of all traffic flowing across the internet at peak time."

A year before...

Twisted laser vortexes carry 1.6 terabits per second over fiber optic network
http://www.extremetech.com/computin...-terabits-per-second-over-fiber-optic-network

"The team of researchers that produced infinite-capacity wireless vortex beams has deployed the same technology in optical fibers, using twisted laser beams to transfer data at 1.6 terabits per second over 1.1 kilometers (0.68 miles)."

 

Would love to have internet like that!

 

Now, you can blow your data cap/limit in just matter of seconds!

 

LMAO, those guys should learn what multi mode and single mode is first before writing that article.

 

Too bad this technology will never be deployed in the US/Europe. Nobody wants to spend money digging up and repaving streets and highways when there's still a huge glut of dark fiber lying around from the dot-com boom.

 

Overrated... here's the best...

 

Around here they have added new fiber 4 years ago and AFAIK still adding fiber today. Somewhere in Europe, far away from big population centers.

BTW many newer installations have installed tubes so adding a new fiber/fibers is trivial and much less expensive than digging up streets etc.

 

It's awfully slow how companies are deploying fiber today, though in my experience it helps to either live next to a railroad or next to a big university.

 

Or live in Europe...

 

Or South Korea.

 

Or Japan.

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