What will internet speeds be like for our kids?
How does hundreds of tera-bits per second, over traditional fiber optic cable sound to you?
Did I stutter?
…Didn’t think so!
That’s less than a 1 second download for a full DVD. And just by adding some magic lasers to help along our current Fiber Optic cabling? I’m sure there is more to it than that, but this is under development at Japan’s Tohoku university as we speak.
Can anyone say a full season of Simpsons in a few minutes? Well it’s not coming any time soon but it will be here one day… Doh!
Just think our children will be able to download porn by the truck load dumb quick so watch out how you punish them… Sending them to their room may not be what you want to do… feeling me?
Check out the full article here and the Gizmodo post we found this on here. Thanks Haroon Malik, you the man! (Edit: the article is gone from Gizmodo as of now… But still on my RSS reader, Go figure?) [Tech.co.uk via Gizmodo]
According to the article:
A laser is utilized to change the data transmission method via optical fibers, allowing QAM to be implemented for Internet connectivity. This in turn gives rise to surprisingly fast, terabit/second connections.
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about 4 years ago
I am still very far away from having kids..around 8 yrs I guess :)
so I should be defending them huh? but isntead of giving the start to the age old debate…leave it here!
about that fast internet I guess someone is already having that..
I wrote about it once http://www.nofullstop.com/2007/07/15/40gbs-internet-and-i-thought-my-isp-was-improving-quick/
about 4 years ago
I guess the link didn’t show up
click here
about 4 years ago
I am still very far away from having kids..around 8 yrs I guess :)
so I should be defending them huh? but isntead of giving the start to the age old debate…leave it here!
about that fast internet I guess someone is already having that..
I wrote about it once http://www.nofullstop.com/2007/07/15/40gbs-intern…“> “>http://www.nofullstop.com/2007/07/15/40gbs-intern…
about 4 years ago
I am still very far away from having kids..around 8 yrs I guess :)
so I should be defending them huh? but isntead of giving the start to the age old debate…leave it here!
about that fast internet I guess someone is already having that..
I wrote about it once http://www.nofullstop.com/2007/07/15/40gbs-intern…“> “>http://www.nofullstop.com/2007/07/15/40gbs-intern…
about 4 years ago
Being able to download at that speed means nothing if you cant store it. I dont know of any medium that can store that much data in that amount of time. So i think that has to been there first
about 4 years ago
fiber optic networks will be more and more popular, and the speed of internet will be faster~
about 4 years ago
Being able to download at that speed means nothing if you cant store it. I dont know of any medium that can store that much data in that amount of time. So i think that has to been there first
about 4 years ago
fiber optic networks will be more and more popular, and the speed of internet will be faster~
about 4 years ago
i have built a 5tb nas for under a thousand dollars so by the time this is ready i should be ready for it. i think even wd sells 1tb ready to go devices for cheap. it is almost upon us.
thank u for the nfo admin. even when my rents sent me to my room 20 yrs ago i had toys a plenty so not much changes just the medium.
about 4 years ago
I personally cant wait until my torrent d/ls are instant. let me know when the infastructure is ready k?
and @compuworld watch out them kids come when you least expect it. how old are you n e ways?
about 4 years ago
i have built a 5tb nas for under a thousand dollars so by the time this is ready i should be ready for it. i think even wd sells 1tb ready to go devices for cheap. it is almost upon us.
thank u for the nfo admin. even when my rents sent me to my room 20 yrs ago i had toys a plenty so not much changes just the medium.
about 4 years ago
I personally cant wait until my torrent d/ls are instant. let me know when the infastructure is ready k?
and @compuworld watch out them kids come when you least expect it. how old are you n e ways?
about 4 years ago
Don’t count on fiber optics cable for any increase in Internet speed. Why? The answer is purely financial.
Where users are being serviced by existing cable provider’s are concerned, forget about it. No service provider in their right mind is going to spend any money on installing fiber optic cable, where coaxial cable is currently being used. Existing coaxial cable, particularly that which is buried in the ground would have at least 30 years of life before the cable companies would even consider replacing it.
If they were to consider just burying new fiber optic cable along side the coaxial cable, they would run into all kinds of problems doing so, because most easements also contain electric supply lines, telephone lines and other utilities. Users couldn’t even get fiber optic if they agreed to pay for it themselves, because it would have to be installed throughout the whole community.
Aerial fiber optic service might be easier to install, if the poles are already in place. In those places where poles would have to be installed, people might not be so keen on this option.
New subdivisions under development, would be the most likely places to see “fiber to the home” and this would only work if fiber optics were used all the way back to the cable service provider.
New Technologies have to find some way to provide to this type of service that it would not be so costly or intrusive. The answer is going to have to come from the satellite providers working with local wireless systems that have improved their security.
Robert Robinson
Former Manager of a Major Communications Company
about 4 years ago
@ Robert Robertson
Pretty astute and true.
The facts are that the organizations that currently handle our internet connections to the home have no incentive and too much ability to lobby/litigate their way into preventing them from making a huge capital investment in new technology.
It is easier to put new routers on the end points and push the existing technology to its brink as long as they can, thus maximizing their return on an old, and nearly paid for investment, rather than dump billions into new infrastructure.
This is why Verizon’s FiOS set up is so risky. It literally holds the financial future of an entire organization in the palm of its hands.
While there has been many a hiccup, FiOS is paying off because most people are just simply fed up with the monopoly that is the Cable industry.
Satellite just isn’t a viable answer. The latency issues with satellite just makes it a no go. I know, because we’ve tried it. The fact that the traffic for consumer grade is asynchronis and works in bursts as opposed to constant I/O is a deal killer for just about anything that is I/O intensive like a Citrix connection, VoIP, or gaming.
Just my thoughts….and I am waiting to a home so I can get FiOS installed so I can tell Cablevision to F off…