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- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+68giggidy-giggidy-giggidy!
- javierror, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43go to college
- phraud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34No, your HD cannot handle anywhere near that speed, and no, you won't have that speed directly to your PC, and no, you won't have an 80Gbit pipe from your dorm to your main campus LAN. 1Gbit is the highest speed link that you will see to your PC, and even then, it will probably be on a 40-port 1Gbit switch with a 10Gbit uplink to campus - probably less than that.
For instance, I have a 10Gbit network here, but my PC is only linked at 100Mbit, and I don't have anywhere near 10Gbit for internet access. Anywhere on our 500km ring of fibre can attain > 1Gbit link speed, but we only have 1Gbit network cards in our servers, so they aren't going to hit speeds faster than that anyway. - ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -7/+311 min 700MB torrents. W00000T!!!
- slash101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Time to download the internet then.
- TheAttacks, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23I would LOVE internet that fast. . .
- ers35, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Can your hardrive even handle this speed?
- veloscaper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15too late, the US gooberment gave tax breaks totaling $200B to Telcos to build out fiber to the premises. Telcos promised to deliver 45mb/s (both ways) by 2006 to everyone. Seems they kept the money instead :P
just market forces in action as Bush says. - TVarmy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18I believe that's 7 seconds.
- ers35, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Actually, I was stating a retorical question; I knew they can't handle this speed.
- phraud, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18How is ers35 right? ers35 didn't even make a statement, he(she?) asked a question...
- slash101, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I'm sure you already have enough porn...
- niiru, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12and I expect your on 3.5 megabits..
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18Wait a minute. Didn't Oreilly and Associates trademark Internet2? ;-)
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Check out corporate members at internet2.edu. One of them is RIAA, so I would postpone all bit-torrent-giddyups until further consideration.
- Overdose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"Welcome to the end of the internet, you have seen it all"
- quadvods, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yes! And only 10GB of peak time bandwidth, P2P throttling, QOS, FUP and so so so many more user friendly network additions! :P
- MattLat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8so, like... the US would reach European / Asian speeds?
Amazing! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Assuming 20 terrabytes (175921860444160 bits) and 800 gbit/s is 858993459200
175921860444160 / 858993459200 = 204.8
You could download every text of the library of congress in about 3 minutes and 24.8 seconds. - Derg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I think one of the problems people are having with this is scale. It is not ment for a single node to be connected to. You are not going to hook your dell up to some mysterious 800gbps cable and expect to download things Uber-fast. This is meant to allow lots of fast things to happen simultaneously. Now-a-days you could do some respectable resolution video conference on a 1gbps link. But if you want to have 5 different locations broadcasting and receiving this ok-res (not HD or anything, thats even more), any standard commercial link is gonna groan. This, along with distributed compute nodes transferring data files over the backbone and yadaydada. Its not about doing 1 thing oh-my-god-i-peed-myself fast, its about doing several, perhaps dozens of things, all over campus, throughout the inet2 network, with respectable speed.
- SirTezzy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10You can never have enough porn.
- slash101, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9I think the size of your HDD says otherwise.
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I can't believe I have to make the same comment twice, on two separate articles. INTERNET2 IS A GROUP. There is no such thing as a "new internet" called Internet2. They're a consortium of groups and people.
And this article is inaccurate. The Abilene Network is not being "phased out." It's merging with the National LambdaRail. - fogbog293, on 02/10/2009, -0/+4Don't get excited, that extra 790 gb is going to be used for Verizon and AT&T's new television network: AT&T&TV
- pedmond, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Very good point. Having such a speed would be useless unless the other elements in a computer can deal with it. Even memory doesn't work near that fast.
However, I am reasonably sure we are a few good years away from that, and in the meanwhile there will be progress in the other fields as well.
But - think about it! Near instantaneous communication! And think also what this will do for piracy - download a full movie in seconds... I guess stronger copyright enforcement methods will have to be found... just what we needed. - Anchoret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What's the point if the source server can't provide the bandwidth needed for an accessible page-three Digg link?
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yep, besides it's not the point a harddrive can't handle that speed.. A few thousand computer's harddrives CAN handle that speed, which is why it's aimed at universities and the likes..
- Ben - 350Zed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Before everyone gets too excited, here's a bit of telecom reality...
Even if the backbone is upgraded, your bottleneck is always the local access (e.g., the ADSL line between your house and your ISP, the cellular network connecting your phone to your wireless ISP). Remember the backbone is made up of fiber-optic cabling interconnected by VERY expensive DWDM-based switching gear. What connects you to the Internet is more important than the composition of the Internet itself, in terms of what's your individual USEABLE bandwidth. - soulpunisher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So what he is saying to you guys who don't understand is you need to connect directly to the telco :-)
- brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Just think how fast people will get their porn in 100 years...
& besides, just because you can't get it for yourself doesn't mean you can't want it. - dosman711, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's simultaneously coming with Duke Nukem Forever, to allow for decent multiplayer :-)
- mpancha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Didn't we already over the last several years pay for in taxes (thanks to telcom lobbyists) fibre to the home? this is as per this digg article: http://digg.com/hardware/We_ve_all_paid_for_45Mbps_to_our_homes,_now_demand_it_
Basically, we have already paid for fibre to the home. The telcos got the tax, they collected the funds, they hiked up rates through the years, and have delivered nothing. All we're asking for is what we already paid for.
I'm sick of the US gov't and businesses screwing us over. We nuked Japan, and Japan turned around and invaded our pocket books through countless technological achievements. - nox4444, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Like Phraud said before... it certainly won't be 800 gbps to your home although I wouldn't doubt that in another 10 years that's possible. And even with such fast download speeds your hard drive wouldn't be able to read that fast. But it is still pretty cool and the speed would be a couple Gbp/s I would imagine and plus, movies in seconds :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Leo Laporte: There's a porn site I've heard of that has HD porn downloads available, it seems porn is always at the forefront.
*TWiT panel glares at Leo*
*Leo looks around confused*
Leo: What? - chiddicks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6God, this would be a relief. Right now I'm hosting The Internet on my computer, on a 5Mbit cable line. You know, it was good for a while, but now I need to move up to something faster, as The Internet is growing.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3..actually at 10gbit it's 1.25 gigabytes per second..
so 700mb torrent in a fraction of a second. - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I get 700MB torrents at about 6-9 minutes, if the Seed/Leech ratio is 2:1 or more.
- largobargo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sorry but I can't comprehend 800 gigabits, how many library of congresses would that be?
- Zm3r3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2what about solid state HD's? what speed can they write?
- EPeters, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"The internet2 is plenty fast when it comes to speed". WTF!! The author needs to give up on english and try something new.
- fatcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2heh screw petafast im waiting for 100 yotibytes/sec id be willing to pay 50 a month to download the same amount of information it would take to make an exact replica of the world in under a second, think of the porn, thats the whole internet in under a second
- LNahid2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And evil phone/cable companies will never give us anything close to those speeds.
- Systembomber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You'll only have to look at somethnig and it will be already downloaded before you even click on it to download...
- HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2
The Telco routers already use 10GB pipes. Those 10GB pipes then feed other routers all the way down to your 1.5Mbps DSL line. - jonquille, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3can YOU handle that speed?
just the thought of having that speed causes the following symptoms: eye twitching, heart racing - palpitation, and last but not least.. brain cells racing around gathering a TO-DOwnload-LIST!
and btw, by the time that speed is out there for US to use, our harddrives would be able to handle it.. - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Next up. 100k RPM Raptor Drives!
- treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Internet2, a network primarily used by academic and research institutions"
LOL, that just downright makes me sad... see why: http://digg.com/technology/How_s_this_..._256kbps_@_$132_for_4GB_(not_monthly)
I really do love me 256kbps "academic" broadband access... especially when I pay $132 for 4GB! (massive sarcasm alert) - btipling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Makes sense, since you can only download as fast as others are able to upload it.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3You will not get it. Ever
- HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Telcos are trying to get a 20-30Mb pipe to your home right now. They are holding off because they don't want to spend the money and then have a reseller turn around and "resell" it. That's why they pushed to have legislation passed to remove them from being a "common carrier."
If they build it and someone else is allowed to resell it then they will not build it! -
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