Fasten Your Seat Belts, Speed Limit 640 GB/S
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I just read a story that's going to be of interest those who like to be on the bleeding edge of speed capacities... Some physicists at the University of Sydney have come up with an optical chip that's reportedly capable of speeds up to a hundred times faster than Australia's current networks are doing.
What's cool about it is that the chalcogenide glass photonic chips are based on plain glass and are supposed to be really cheap to make with some really awesome capabilities.
He adds that these chips could be scaled to operate at data rates approaching 640 Gb/s — the equivalent to transmitting approximately 17 complete DVDs per second!
This technology could be commercially available within 5 years or so.
Here's hoping, this could go a long way toward easing people's concerns about available bandwidth.
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Thanks for the article, great post. I can’t imagine all of the stuff I’ll be able to do over the net with speeds like that ahem *cough*cough* ahem lol
That is extraordinarily fast! I would love to have that speed, I would be able to handle and download anything. Here is hoping that they can make it viable.
Well, give it five years or so for R&D, and another 6 to 12 months for an actual product to be built and marketed.