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[delivi]

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IBM has developed an optical transciver that can transfer data at a rate of 160GB/s, fast enough to download a High-definition movie in aount one second.

This was announced by IBM at the OFC/NFOEC Conference and Exposition in California, held during the March.

This technology was developed as a part of a program sponsered by the DARPA (Defence Advanced Reserch Projects Agency) to speed up communications between supercomputers.

Edited by delivi, 09 June 2007 - 02:40 PM.

[FolkRockFan]

I'm always amazed when we manage to increase Internet speed by any significant number. I don't know why it still impresses me - I mean, we've had high-speed Internet for years now and there have been many improvements during that time. But it's still neat to hear about what we're figuring out.

[srujanlive]

Yeah the speeds continue to increase bit by the time they reach the common man, it would be many many years..

[Striker9099]

wow that's really alot of speed! too bad in my stupid country the fastest internet we got is DSL and it's not yet available through out the whole country (it hasn't reached my city yet) so I'm still on a very slow internet connection Hopefully such technology will be available in my country because we really need these sorts of significant improvements!

[GamerGlitch]

I need a connection like that. I have an alright connection, sort of fast right now, Time Warner Cable (Road Runner), but it could always use improvement.

[dreem]

in that much speed, every one will prefer to stick on internet, for downloading. Is that kind of DSL ?

[Evil Guy]

dude that thing is fast

[Qazster]

Hmmm I believe that even though the client has that kind of speed the server would also have to have a similar amount of speed also correct?

[galexcd]

Inventing new technology to go suck high speeds does seem a bit excessive. I find humans to be rather impatient. I look back to bout 7 years ago when I had dial-up and quite a slow computer, and didn't even mind waiting, but now if I were going to use that again I'd probably destroy the computer out of frustration. Even now our connection speeds and computer speeds seem decent but I can't help but think that in 20 years we are going to wonder how we could even stand these computers we use now. This technology is quite amazing, but I think it would be better if instead of inventing new technology to go 100 times faster than what the average person has, how about work on bringing current technology to the person. If we have the technology to have a transfer rate of 160GB/s, we should be able to be making half that, and cheaply and accessible to the average internet user. I know that T1 lines can go quite fast, but those are so expensive usually only large corporations use it.

I wouldn't be surprised if houses started to come with a second dedicated line for the internet in the near future. Pretty soon the internet and the phone won't have anything to do with each other anymore. New houses will be built with a line going to a station which is owned by many major ISP's. The line remains unused until you sign up for service with the ISP then you get an extremely fast connection with a much cheaper price than a dedicated line costs nowadays.

Anyway I'm just letting my mind wander. This was a very interesting find. My mind will still be thinking about this for some time.... 160gb a second... wow...

[Will.Allison]

That is amazing. I can't wait until anything even remotely close to that becomes the standard. For todays technology, I think that the standard internet speed is pathetic. And yes, Alex you are right. The human race is extremely impatient but that does not mean we should not strive for improvements.

I stumbled upon this article where a 75-year-old woman has the fastest home internet speed at 40gbps. Even half that would be awesome if it was the standard.

The way technology is growing, I bet I will get my wish pretty soon.

[fffanatics]

As nice as this sounds, you have to remember that there is two sides to every connection. Upstream and downstream. At the standard high speed of 5 mbps here in my area (excluding the 15mpbs fios) a webpage will load almost instantaneously. At higher speeds, it will not increase the load time because it has nothing to do with recieving the website but how fast your computer and the browser can put the packages back together in the correct order which means a faster connection is not necessary. Downloading large files is where a faster connection could be useful but just because you have an extremely fast connection does not mean the provider of the file you are downloading has a fast enough connection to upload the files to you. Upstream always is much slower than downstream which is why even though we have 5 mbpsm, we can only download at around 300 kbps.

[9block]

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I can't help but think that in 20 years we are going to wonder how we could even stand these computers we use now.

i think the systems we will be using will be completely different. With search:Microsoft's Surface being revealed, ect... (you definitely have to check that out), it'll most likely be compared to typewriters to computers... Not specifically Surface, but some technology will take over and replace home computers. I believe there will be another great jump... Like carborated to fuel injection, or rotatory phones to cordless. Home computers as we know them will change.

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As nice as this sounds, you have to remember that there is two sides to every connection. Upstream and downstream.

And obviously if you were the only one, or only few, the technology would only serve as maximum speed you would be able to download from. But you would also be able to have hundreds of incoming connections without your speed altering (if you were only one). For example you could be download 15 movies from various {legal} sources and loading web pages with out noticing a glitch. And there are lots of 100mbit sites to download from, so you would be able to download a movie at 10MB/s(10,000kb/s).

but in reality, it would be more useful if everyone had this type of connection. Tera byte harddrives would also become more popular seeing as filling your HDD would be easy. Images probably wouldn't be compressed seeing as it would be useless to save space over quality with both speeds/space upgraded. Alot would change in technology and how it is developed (on the software front).

Edited by 9block, 19 July 2007 - 07:41 PM.

[Plenoptic]

Thinking about what alex7h3pr0gr4m3r said, if we were to go back to the computers we had 5 years ago, and the technology we had with the internet, we would probably hear about lots of computers blowing up. It's already amazing how much computers have evolved but if soon the standard is to download at 160GB/s then we will have to have some really big hard drives. The thing is though, that files are also being able to get smaller and smaller as well as we can compact them more and more so that with the technology we do have today, it won't take as long to download them. So now as we progress into the future, files will still be getting smaller, connections will still be getting faster, and hard drives will still be getting bigger. Of course, we'll soon be able to also have more capabilities with the computer. We already can watch TV on them and host our own radio station, there is bound to be more that we'll have access to. But would it really be worth it to have something that fast? Of course if it's soon the standard you may think so, then dial up will cost pennies a month.

[flopadmi]

hmmm man tell us how can i download movie in one second??
u r making us amazon

[Ninkul]

flopadmi said:

hmmm man tell us how can i download movie in one second??
u r making us amazon

ummm... what?


Its all great that the transfer speed is great but i'm preeeettttyyy surrreee my hard drive cant write that fast *dances*

[Blaze E]

I don't see that public for at least another 10 years at least... That was done for supercomputers.

BTW, I remember that some sciencetists managed to tansfer data at a rate of 1TB/s , or was that something else?

[Soviet]

Amazing article. I always wanted to get better and better internet and this can be great way to make money for that organization and speed up our internet's.I think i will be for a while when this will be a normal internet speed..But 160gb/s is not acceptable for HDD ..they can only 20mb/s (most of them) That fast internet and downloading wouldn't be simple.They must just create better HDDs

[infin]

Wow that is fast .. I wish i had it ... pages would load right when u click them ... it would be awesome

[FLaKes]

Amazing, I guess everything is going to end up in the internet and computers will end up being terminals.. That would make computers really inexpensive, and I guess you could rent the processor speed, disk space... etc everything you need. What would also rule would be that you could rent High definition movies with a click, and without leaving your house.

[Atthack]

Wow 160gb/s transfer rate, huh.

So NOW I feel lousy sitting on my "tiny" 4mb Cable Connection

But atleast times are changing, and stuff gets BETTER AND BETTER and CHEAPER AND CHEAPER. I guess all that's in it for me - Is to wait.
But I'd be happy with 100MB up and 100MB down Not a problem!

[Soby]

Agreeing with alex a few posts up, people are prone to being used to new technologies that when sometimes they are to revert back, it becomes really painfull for them. This technology that IBM has invented really is a remarkable innovation but there are times when i think that whats the need of a techonology this fast when the times difference is not that big. My uncle uses this internet speed where he download a GB in minutes.
Technology has become this much fast that the people are living a fast life. want their work done fast and now have no time for others and little pleasures in life..
Damn im getting out of topic here eh.
By the way.. i heard that IBM was about to produce a processor that was 500 GHz.. i remember reading something about it a while back.. anyone have any idea what happened to that?

[Codemaster Snake]

There is a great saying that I read in "Computer Networks" Book:

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In the race of Computing and Communication, Communication Won!

And Thats really true.

[faund]

That's great!
How to deal with the last mile? I think that's the question.

[HixyOz]

wow id love something like that,and all i have right now is a 128kb connection

[tranvantrung]

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