Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps 2550km

**joder** · 02-28-2008, 12:07 PM

"The goal of 100 Gbps Ethernet transmission is closer to reality with the announcement Wednesday that Alcatel-Lucent researchers have recorded an optical transmission record along with three photonic integrated circuits. Carried out by researchers in Bell Labs in Villarceaux, France, the successful transmission of 16.4 Tbps of optical data over 2,550 km was assisted by Alcatel's Thales' III-V Lab and Kylia, an optical solution company. The researchers utilized 164 wavelength-division multiplexed channels modulated at 100-Gbps in the effort."

http://slashdot.org/articles/08/02/28/1332224.shtml

**drowranger** · 09-02-2008, 12:54 PM

And people keep talking about restricting internet usage per individual . Our communication technology is outpacing the increase in usage levels

**nyef** · 09-02-2008, 01:20 PM

Yeah but doing it once and doing it cheaply for everyone are different things. Cable internet is still as slow as it was a few years ago, and cable is a shared pipeline so it affects other people when one person in the neighborhood is using 500gb of bandwidth a month.

DSL is not shared, even at the neighborhood level, so it doesn't matter how much you use on DSL. Use the maximum the connection can handle and no one will ever care.

**CodyLoco** · 09-04-2008, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nyef

Yeah but doing it once and doing it cheaply for everyone are different things. Cable internet is still as slow as it was a few years ago, and cable is a shared pipeline so it affects other people when one person in the neighborhood is using 500gb of bandwidth a month.

DSL is not shared, even at the neighborhood level, so it doesn't matter how much you use on DSL. Use the maximum the connection can handle and no one will ever care.

I use about 500gb

Just bought myself a 1TB HDD so I can stop deleting my stuff!