First 100 Gbps trans-atlantic link for researchers begins testing

[froggyboy604]

a group of six research and education networks including Internet2 have demonstrated the first 100 Gbps link between North America and Europe reserved specifically for their intellectual agenda. It won't be much use just yet, as the Advanced North Atlantic 100G Pilot project (ANA-100G) will be subject to a year of testing while "operational requirements" are looked at.

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Crazy, a 100 Gbps internet connecrion. This could mean we can download games, movies, and shows in seconds.

 

[Nuke]

It's surely interesting, but we already have 100Gbps; it's a datacenter thing.

Google, Facebook, etc. are even developing Tbps.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I say by the time I'm 50 internet should be a instant thing, download should be a thing of the past.

 

[froggyboy604]

I think a lot of websites will still load at 100Mbps and 1Gbps in the far future since very fast web hosting is expensive, and most people just want to pay $1-5 a month for hosting their forum, blogs, and sites which don't need super fast hosting since websites are mostly text, pictures, and occassionally flash.

Flash websites are also unpopular because search engines can't read text on images, flash websites, so the rankings are very low for flash sites. Vistors also dislike flash because it slows down their PC and make sounds if the flash website has music and video, and they  sometimes even block it with a web browser add-on like Flashblock, and NoScript.

More websites these days are also designed for tablets, and smartphones, so the website does not slowdown slower smartphones and tablets which can barely run a web browser at fast speeds.

A faster web connection would be useful if you share the internet with a lot of people who stream HD YouTube videos at once, or you download a lot of videos, and games online at once.

 

[Nuke]

I say by the time I'm 50 internet should be a instant thing, download should be a thing of the past.

Moore's Law is ending. Why does no one ever realize this?

20 nm, the new transistor gate width (aka "feature size" or "tech size") is so small that it approaches the point where the size of an atom becomes a barrier. After this point, it will progress extremely slowly. Tech companies are already preparing for this. I am not just blowing steam.

Now, one or two Gbps could sustain the whole Internet at a very fast speed, considering it's a 200x increase over now, though.

I think a lot of websites will still load at 100Mbps and 1Gbps in the far future since very fast web hosting is expensive, and most people just want to pay $1-5 a month for hosting their forum, blogs, and sites which don't need super fast hosting since websites are mostly text, pictures, and occassionally flash.

Flash websites are also unpopular because search engines can't read text on images, flash websites, so the rankings are very low for flash sites. Vistors also dislike flash because it slows down their PC and make sounds if the flash website has music and video, and they  sometimes even block it with a web browser add-on like Flashblock, and NoScript.

More websites these days are also designed for tablets, and smartphones, so the website does not slowdown slower smartphones and tablets which can barely run a web browser at fast speeds.

A faster web connection would be useful if you share the internet with a lot of people who stream HD YouTube videos at once, or you download a lot of videos, and games online at once.

If "very fast web hosting" stayed expensive in your hypothetical scenario where Gbps and 100Mbps becomes popular...

Then the trend of people who don't even get hosting and just go with tumblr, Facebook, etc. for their sites will accelerate rapidly, due to the fact that, without "decent" speed, visitors leave.

The Internet would, inevitably, become very consolidated between the "great powers", who would feud for the users of the entire Internet, only to have their ranks changed by bankruptcies and government social services. (The UK nationalized Rolls-Royce until Margaret Thatcher liberated it; she's being demonized by a lot of Westerners, so I could see state-enterprise social sites etc.)

 

[froggyboy604]

There will still be people making startup websites (with other people's money) like Instagram hoping they can earn a lot of cash, or get bought by a bigger company like Facebook for billions.

I agree there are more people who use Facebook etc because of the fast speeds, and servers which can handle lots of traffic from a lot of visitors at once.