Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps 2550km

Stony Stevenson writes "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."

Translation please?

[davidwr]

What's that in Library-of-Congresses per fortnight?

So, this speed, on a scale of 1-10...

[r_jensen11]

Would this qualify as 11?

ObWalken

[Saint Aardvark]

<walken>That's a lot of cows. [imdb.com]</walken>

Don't get too excited.

[geminidomino]

That's just BURST throughput. Depending on factors like time of day, how many other users there are, and environmental conditions, throughput may drop as low as 33kbps. And we do NOT filter bittorrent.

Just check your TOS agreement. It's all right there.

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maybe its just me

[the_mind_]

"164 wavelength-division multiplexed channels modulated at..."

how very Star Trek of them.

Re:Translation please?

[suso]

HD DVD, Bluray or regular?

Doesn't matter...

[ScaryMonkey]

No matter how much speed they create, they will still be subject to the Law of Diminishing Porn Returns, which states:

For download rate n, my demand for new porn will require me to download at a rate of n+1.

Re:maybe its just me

[pizzutz]

"164 wavelength-division multiplexed channels modulated at..."
how very Star Trek of them.

I'm sorry Captain, but we canno' reach these speeds with time-division multiplexing. the phase coils canno' handle it!

Re:Translation please?

[u-235-sentinel]

What's that in Library-of-Congresses per fortnight?

Well... if you are Concast they will give you those numbers in terms of photos or mp3's or emails downloaded in a month.

Personally I like to know in terms of how many 8 track tapes I can download a month. ;-)

Re:Don't get too excited.

[holyspidoo]

Now offering the fastest 16.4 Tbps service* available anywhere

*1 Gig upload/download monthly limits apply

Re:Sending "optical data"

[thwack328]

Senator Stevens? Is that you?

Re:Translation please?

[thechao]

I saw "LoC" and thought "Lines of Code"; my second thought was that you have some *mad* job security.