3.28 Terabit Speed

Probably not too many people will see this as the story is going to off the main page soon....but here is a link to the fastest fiber system that is currently being produced (that I'm aware of). 2 Terabits.
http://www.ciena.com/products/corestream/index.html
A friend of mine works there, and I got to see one of their systems. You have to wear all kinds of anti-static gear just to be in the same room with it. It also takes up more space than you might think.

Cable fast f0ne slow

-chillin

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okay, maybe i'm mistunderstanding something, but...

A terabit == all the traffic worldwide for one day?
A terabit == 1000 gigabits (right?)

1000 gigabits == 125 gigabytes (8 bits == one byte)

There's only 125 gigabytes of traffic daily on the internet? I really really really don't believe that statistic, unless they're NOT counting all the warez and mp3s and pr0n being traded on FTPs, etc. Maybe they're only talking about port 80 traffic.

you realise know how much porn you could download with that?

My dick is a terabit long.
Fucking hurts when I stick it in my computer though.

...and so I can get this connection to my apartment when?

That is directed to #59....

Donkey Popsicle,

It is not how fast the light can go, since light speed is a contant. The problem arises with the strength of the laser beam. If you have the sending laser device and the recieving device too close together, the receiver can get burnt out. There are reducing lenses that can reduce the signal strength to somthing that the receiver (and hence the networks) can handle. Having too much signal is just like having not enough signal... :-)

i would like two of these please.

1st Post! lol just kidding

I did a 2 week update of 6 games(fps)taken from ALL servers not just gamespy from wed,friday and saturday and compiled them.(these include mods) here's what I got:

#1 Half-Life #Servers- 6492 - #Players- An obscene 12,297

#2 Tribes #Servers- 3689- #Players- 7,834

#3 Unreal Tournament #Servers- 2,290 - #Players - 4,589

#4 Quake Arena #Servers - 1,957 - #Players - 3,429*

#5 Quake 2 #Servers - 1,319 - #Players - 2,428

#6 Quake 1 #servers - 483 - #Players - 672


As you can see, Half Life continues to dominate the servers and players which I presume is due to the TFC and CS mods. Tribes seems to be very popular in heavy TP action which is what the game was made for. While UT and Q# seem to be close with UT edging out in the lead with servers and players. Q2 coming in 5th and Quake 1 still holding up which might be the due to the release of the source code? Kind of interesting though when you look at it.


*One thing interesting though is the Q3 servers, Because alot of them have BOTS on the servers(up to 4) until humans join then 1 bot gets dropped to replace every human that connects.(This proved to be the most interupted server reading because people would drop out more often then other games due to "bots" being on the servers?)I still included them on the list because it would be a bitch to sort out all of the bots on the servers at any given time.(Maybe someone else would want to do it)

This does not include AC which is a RPG which beats out HL with a whopping 15,000+ player list.

As if any reasonably priced NIC card could actually handle that, let alone the hard disk. Besides, it may as well be all smoke and clouds until it goes into manufacturing. Give me one or two megabits for $20/month and I'll be plenty happy.

Hey, I don't get any credit at all? I mentioned it way back at #41 under "Modems Still Here". Well, in case you are all too lazy to check, here's another site with info:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000316110558.htm

Heh... even if everyone is suddenly offering terabit-level connections, the question remains... could you even use it all?

Think about this. Say you have an Ultra SCSI-2 160 hard drive. That's 160 MB per second. Multiply by 8, and you get about 1 Gb (that's gigabits) per second. Even a 1-terabit connection, then, is about 1000 times faster than that hard drive. Heck, even that powerline technology Media Fusion is working on is expected to be about 2.5 times faster than that hard drive.

So, quite literally, the connection is too much for the system. You'd have to practically make everyone their own ISP (i.e. allow others to route through your connection) in order for it not to be a near-total waste!

Maybe waiting a few years for this wouldn't be a bad thing after all...

do you know how many MB's it would take for lifelike 3d renedered pr0n? a buttload.

i think this technology is headed in the right direction to supply us with the pr0n of the future.

oh yeah and i hate typing my username and password for every post :P
oh yeah, i don't have a user profile due to the Æ in my name :O

This Lucent stuff is old news, and it's experimental stuff. Nortel is actually bringing out products in the next few months at Terabit speeds.

Well, seeing how our RAM bandwidth is barely a couple gigs a second, we obviously won't be using any damn terabit lines on PCs any time soon. We could all probably settle for simple 10Mb lines to our ISPs. I like mine anyway.

Download comple,com,com,com,complete ! Yeah baby! Yeah!

That 1.5 terrabytes of mp3s on napster doesnt get transfered every second. Also the DDos that hit yahoo was around 1gbs.

When over half the country has yet to see cable or DSL, its going to be a long long time before this happens. Whats the story on Media One or Iridium? I thought both of those outfits were going to be providing high speed internet access through electrical wires and satellite respectively.

aww.
my 9gigabit fibreoptic seems slow now :(

Yeah man there's an average of like 1.5 terabytes of mp3s on Napstah alone, that stuff flies around like shit in a fan factory.

i dont think anybody will have this going to thier house anytime soon, but a well placed line could really speed up the internet in general, eliminating all bottlenechs axcept the server and the client

i would just like to take this opportunity to say holy crap.

Well another thing ... who wants to pay for a residential fibre optic installation in the next 5 years? =$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Sure we need to get there ... but my wallet can wait. (and besides .. I just got DSL and don't want it obsoleted just yet! ;)