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thats fast !!!

i hate my 56k :(

heh jk i have 1024]]>Mar 24th 2006 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
yes, i cry myself to sleep everynight.]]>Mar 24th 2006 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 24th 2006 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 24th 2006 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 24th 2006 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 24th 2006 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 24th 2006 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
here at home i have a 100 mbps connection :)]]>Mar 25th 2006 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
Which now reminds me of my 30 characters per second dot matrix terminal .. no CRT in those days for me.

#5 Home users adicted to p0rn can never get enough bandwidth. They can get live holographic p0rn at those speeds.
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dial-up users are commiting suicide everywhere]]>Mar 25th 2006 12:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
Of course, who could forget the sheer joy of the Volks modems with the AutoAnswer switch on 'em? :)]]>Mar 25th 2006 1:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 25th 2006 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 25th 2006 2:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 25th 2006 2:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 25th 2006 3:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
Seriously, when are they going to be able to viably market this? Once they do, say goodbye to computing as we know it. Back to the dummy terminal (in each home) / smart client (the servers) architecture. We won't have computers in our homes, we'll own space and memory on another computer elsewhere. Need more? No problem, you've just been upgraded. Want the latest software/movies/music/etc? Ok, you have it now.

Bring it on!!!]]>Mar 25th 2006 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
Remember when 56K was Blazing fast and if you had a Pentium, you would NEVER need to upgrade? How many of us had a 14.4 modem and thought that it was top of the line at one time (hands up) Who has ever said, "There's no need for a terrabyte of hard drive space, you'll never fill it?" (guilty again, but I have 1.5 terrabytes of data now) The point is, there will one day be a market and there will be a day when these speeds are running to your door. Just think, if the holographic discs are perfected and marketed as primary drives soon, application speed will be nothing to tackle so computers will be faster and we the web surfers will become even more impaitent than we already are.]]>Mar 25th 2006 5:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
If I'm right Korea actually has fibre optics running straight to homes and they get 100Mbits connections.]]>Mar 25th 2006 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 25th 2006 6:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 25th 2006 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
I guess they must be using some super duper fast latency high capacity memory or something.

Pretty awesome, but still, by that time we'll be in the movies we're watching playing the lead role and the imagery pumped to our brains eye sensors. I guess you'd need a lot of info to keep that stuff going.

I'm scared.]]>Mar 25th 2006 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
Yes. I'm in a fairly new apartment in S. Korea and I have a 100 mbps connection.

It'll suck when I move back home to the US :)]]>Mar 25th 2006 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 25th 2006 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 25th 2006 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/1x 720 k/s dsl flatrate
(currently capped at 360 k/s)
and
1x UMTS flatrate (40 k/s) for my cellphone
which i havent used much lately

i hope that some time in 8 years
tv companies switch over to IPtv that way our internet will become much faster.]]>Mar 25th 2006 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 25th 2006 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 25th 2006 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 25th 2006 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 25th 2006 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/I'm running with a 10 mbps connection right now, but I could unlock it to 100 mps with no effort... but it's pretty illegal :D

still pretty far from 2.5 tbps :D]]>Mar 25th 2006 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
I guess they must be using some super duper fast latency high capacity memory or something.

Pretty awesome, but still, by that time we'll be in the movies we're watching playing the lead role and the imagery pumped to our brains eye sensors. I guess you'd need a lot of info to keep that stuff going.

I'm scared.""


Two words: the matrix.. i really think that sometime in the future we'll be able to plug in to games that look perfectly real and seem perfectly real, and we can do whatever we want. would be awesome if you ask me, but it could be horrible too... imagine a vr fps that looks perfectly real.]]>Mar 25th 2006 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
Oh boo hoo, i have dialup because the !#$@%*@ phone company won't let us get DSL, no one will. I have no cable, no satellite, no hi-speed internet on my 400Mhz computer, and the TV reception on my 25+ year old TV sucks. Don't complain to me.]]>Mar 25th 2006 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 25th 2006 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/"I'm rollin 54.0Mbpd"

wow 54 megabits per day make about 606 kilobits per second! thats more than i have (512kbps) o.O
i had never heard of hat kind of unit before though...]]>Mar 25th 2006 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/that would make 655.36 Mbps...

-daniel]]>Mar 25th 2006 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 25th 2006 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/]]>Mar 25th 2006 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 26th 2006 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Mar 26th 2006 3:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
Have your best day ever today.]]>Mar 26th 2006 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
Sorry but this is wrong, 40Gbit/s was surpassed a long long time ago.

Marconi Communications manufactures and sells DWDM equipment (Dense wave division multiplexing) which in essance puts 80 wavelengths of light each carrying 10Gbit/s down one fibre, so 80 x 10Gbit/s equals 800Gbit's, so 20 times faster than what this article would have you beleive.

This equipment - known as "PLT80" which means "photonics line terminal 80 wavelengths", has been sold and used in the UK and Europe for the last 5 years - British telecom has them, as does Cable & Wireless (The part that was formerly Energis).

None the less, 2.5 Tereabits is not to be sniffed at, it's just 3 times faster than what is currently being sold and manufactured NOT 50 odd times faster!]]>Mar 26th 2006 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
They're not sending data to a hard drive. Like most optical testing the optical data is likely going into an O/E converter then into a BERT

Wish I could see more of their setup. But they said "various Wavelengths" which tells me WDM. So there are multiple signals being multiplexed onto one fiber. I'm wondering what the data-rates of the individual signals are.

There are over 50 C-Band channels for DWDM so the individual data-rates are 2.56tbps divided by X. (probably less than 50 but several)

The impressive thing for me is the 100 miles (odd that it's speced in miles - never seen that before) But at any rate it's hard sometimes to get even 2.5GB/s to go that far (because of Chirp and Chromatic Dispersion problems not power.)


(O/E = optical to electrical, BERT = Bit Error Rate Tester, (D)WDM = (Dense) Wavelength Division Multiplexing)
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2400 baud...cool, I'm online

14.4K...holy hell, that's fast!

56K...can you say bitchin'?! Too bad it's the regulated max. Maybe I can set up a trust fund for ISDN in the future.

College 10baseT straight into the backbone...nirvana!

DSL/cable...so THAT's why people hate Flash & PDFs! Hmmmm, maybe I should have suffered through grad school and on-campus housing.]]>Mar 26th 2006 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
With the backbone in american slowly being switched to DWDM/Fiber, expect Verizon's FTTP project to hit almost all homes within half a decade. Within half a century, or possibly sooner, also expect computers to get a new backbone of their own : light. Researchers are trying to create a personal computer that uses light as its bus transmission media rather than electrical traces. When that happens, we'll be able to have rates of terrabytes at the home.

Holy cow...]]>Mar 26th 2006 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
(*cheers up at the fact that I will be able to use 100bmit connection at Ohio State University soon) ]]>Mar 26th 2006 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/
Here's the data path...

BERT - Optical Transceiver(s) - 100 miles o' fiber (the spool visible on their bench) - Back to an O/E or the same Transceiver(s)- Back into the BERT.]]>Mar 27th 2006 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/Apr 11th 2006 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/new-record-set-for-fastest-data-transmission-2-56-terabits-a/May 25th 2007 12:46PM