Researchers Claim New Internet Speed Record Of 44.2 Tbps - The Verge:
Researchers based out of Australia's Monash, Swinburne, and RMIT universities say they've set a new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps, according to a paper published in the open-access journal Nature Communications. That's theoretically enough speed to download the contents of more than 50 100GB Ultra HD Blu-ray discs in a single second.
[...] The test fiber connection ran between RMIT's Melbourne City campus and Monash University's Clayton campus, and the researchers say it mirrors infrastructure used by Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN).
[...] "What our research demonstrates is the ability for fibers that we already have in the ground, thanks to the NBN project, to be the backbone of communications networks now and in the future.
Those speeds were achieved, thanks to a piece of technology called a micro-comb, which offers a more efficient and compact way to transmit data. This micro-comb was placed within the cable's fibers in what the researchers say is the first time the technology has been used in a field trial.
Now, the researchers say the challenge is to turn the technology into something that can be used with existing infrastructure. "Long-term, we hope to create integrated photonic chips that could enable this sort of data rate to be achieved across existing optical fiber links with minimal cost," RMIT's Professor Arnan Mitchell says.
Journal Reference:
Bill Corcoran, Mengxi Tan, Xingyuan Xu, et al. Ultra-dense optical data transmission over standard fibre with a single chip source [open], Nature Communications (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16265-x)
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @02:13PM
Obviously this is NOT the NBN
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @02:14PM (1 child)
Great. So here I am sitting in the USA using great American DSL at speeds that are only a bit better than dial-up. Won't benefit the small person like me. Just used for sucking up data about me collected by big corporations.
"integrated photonic chips"
Didn't they use those on Star Trek? Something about inverting an interphasic warp particle or something. :P
(Score: 2) by Username on Monday May 25 2020, @02:45PM
Photonic chips? That's so outdated, they use isolinary chips in the cheapest sub assemblies with dualtronic or positronic chips in high end computers or androids. Some ships have the latest bioneural gelpacks to replace the low end isolinary chips. Though I hear they have problems with viral infections. Photonics are usually associated with quasi lifeforms, usually holodeck characters that achieve self awareness or emergency medical holograms that have been left on too long. It's also associated with warheads that split photons. So it's usually in reference to a dated ship or a politically loaded discussion.
(Score: 2) by Username on Monday May 25 2020, @02:56PM
Apparently a micro-comb is just a series of lenses that act as a cavity resonator. Looks like some kind of optical harmonics.
You're welcome, I just saved you a right and left click, and maybe a scroll.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday May 25 2020, @03:10PM (1 child)
Two words: immersive teledildonics.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @04:54PM
An IPv6 address for every single cell in the reproductive system.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @08:38PM
What used to be reels of tape in station wagons is now...
Scads of Tb SC memory cards in BloodHound SSC.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @09:19PM (2 children)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2020, @01:06AM (1 child)
russian robot thanking boomers for laying down all that undersea cable. So earning the pension.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2020, @01:52AM
Wouldn't a robot get frist piss most of the time? Maybe Russian robots are slow (or they subcontracted to a former USSR state), this one took ~8 hours to get around to posting.