New World Record For Data Transfer

Demon_Skeith

Demon_Skeith

Administrator
Staff member
Administrator
Credits
51,982
Steal Penalty
You're Rich Money Bags Award
Profile Music
A team at the Technical University of Denmark has managed to blast 43 terabits of data down a fiber cable in a single second, setting a new world record for the fastest ever data transfer speed.

For reference, that's 1GB of data in just 0.2 milliseconds.

These records tend to be broken every few years (the same university held the record back in 2009), but what's promising about this one is that it uses similar technology - firing a single laser down a single fiber - to that used in fiber connections today.

Meaning that while it's the stuff of press releases and record books now, it might only be a few years until speeds like that hit the real world.

Well. The parts of the real world with decent fiber internet infrastructure, anyway.
Click to expand...
source

holy crap! :o
 
Thing is the government will just cap what is being available to use. Here in the UK we're so far behind other countries on internet speed it's a joke. We're only just coming into the 100mb connections, let alone anything higher.
 
I have 20 megabit net and it's quite fast.  Can't imagine how fast a bundle of fiber would be!!
 
Baz said:
Thing is the government will just cap what is being available to use. Here in the UK we're so far behind other countries on internet speed it's a joke. We're only just coming into the 100mb connections, let alone anything higher.
Click to expand...
I'm pretty sure you're ahead of the states on internet.
 
I recently upgraded my internet to 50 megabit.  Loving that. :)  And I'm in a small rural town!
 
hehehehe We are just lucky that our apartment was pre-wired for cable. :)
 
hehehehehe!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top