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- capiCrimm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28@nazuraki
you don't happen to work form verizon do you? - EztliNahua, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27"107 gigabits = 13.37500 gigabytes" - From Google.
1 SL DVD = 4.38GB (From Wikipedia - assuming 1KB = 1024 bytes)
It is, in fact, 3 DVDs per second. - baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26AT&T has already sent out Mercenaries to kill these engineers and bury their work
- fernandez, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24Siemens spewing out data at an alarming rate
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11@kalhey
I think you mean the MPAA, but regardless, screw the RIAA as well.
@Lyph4
He may have used the wrong acronym but you don't have to be a dick about it. We're all on the same side here.. - ryland2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Just imagine how much you could torrent...
- baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11you could suck up every byte in the universe and hold it for ransom
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10cool,
great news,
this means more DVDs off piratebay. :)
screw RIAA - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Oops, right you are. Of course I should have known up/down speed is always quoted in bits, not bytes. I really ought to read these things more carefully.
- burgerboy06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I went to a Siemens factory in Regensburg, Germany last year. They are on the cutting edge of MANY technologies. Such as handys (cell phone), and flash memory. Very nice and futuristic factory too, as well as the BMV plant, very neat those Germans.
- testdrivemedia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Free capitalist land of America? Ha! What have you been smoking?
What ever it is... feel like sharing? - buddyfarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5yes it is. then we who have comcast internet can relish in the fact that we are getting screwed. especially us who are 'just outside' the area and cannot get DSL...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4So why is a 107 Gbps network so significant?
Nothing is being routed, switched, or for the love of god not even multiplexed. No multiplexing makes multiservice provisioning extremely difficult, if not impossible.
The reason I shrug this off as non significant is because the Cisco CRS-1 when clustered can sustain 93 Tbps network speeds. The CRS-1 is a BAR (Big Ass Router). So until Siemens shows off a technology that's on par or more intelligent than what the CRS-1 is then Ill get excited. - Dark_Ice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sweden seems to be a high ranking country for highspeed internet. Currently offering 100Mbit download and 10Mbit upload for $40 a month with no installation fee from the ISP"BredBandsBolaget" ("BrodBandCompany" basicly). This is getting to be more or less standard in every city, big and small. On the country side the standard is 24Mbit down and 1Mbit up using ADSL2+. I'm a happy camper with my 24Mbit tought, 259GB in 24 hours at full speed or something.
- AlphaToxic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wonder HOW much data they actulay transfered. Was this a nanosecond test, or a second, or a minute or an hour... Cause you know... You can send only one bit and claim that you have reached "infinite" transfer speed...
- Ramtech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Do they accept Mastercard?
- dyvbond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2really. really. fast. Like EztliNahua said, 3 DVDs per second
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I've got 8000/768 for $20/mo from Time Warner. Although, sometimes the down speed is more like 10Mbit.
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Im on 512/128 with 14gb download limit for $80 a month
will be switching to 512/128 with 20gb download limit for $50 a month soon
so stop bitching americans, to us here in australia you have awesome internet - cawpin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2capriCrimm gets quote of the day today.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No- we won't see it DIRECTLY. Devices that handle this kind of band width are reserved for the fiber backbones of major carriers.
They won't use it until they are satisfied that it is reliable enough for their biggest, hungriest customers.
The benefit to the end user is the same as adding three lanes to all the highways in your city- less congestion and better availability upstream. - jonahan52, on 10/12/2007, -0/+210Mb down 2Mb up for 34.99/mo .. go FiOS :)
- agent_smith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How can Siemens claim to have the record when NTT had this story on Ars in October claiming to have set the record at 14Tb/s
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7878.html
I'm a bit confused... - testdrivemedia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've got 10mbps down and 3mbps up here in New Zealand for nz$100 per month on Telstra's fibre optic network. I can't complain, it's better than any other residential plan here in New Zealand. It's the data caps that kill it all.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Because I am content with my 8Mbit down, 1Mbit up connection for $20/mo.
- burhan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2>this record is broken every week, hardly news
Show me three of these from the last three weeks.
This is actually exciting stuff for those of us who design transport networks. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just in time for the US to announce a switch back to acoustic coupled dialup for the new Great Depression.
- Iffrat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i have 15,000down 300 up with digital TV and its $100 a month.. but the other day i did a speed test and i was getting 19,000kbps so it goes up and down.. as far as incoming.. i could never need anymore.. but out.. thats a whole other problem
- skyhighrockets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2who the ***** would want to do that.
The internet is for lazy people. - VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cool, but how does this affect me?
- devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Is it just me, or do I see this record getting broken like every few weeks? I'm glad we're making advances in data transmission technology, but is it necessary to report every time someone achieves a new, incremental high?
- tmcdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Exactly, none of this will actually make it into the greater internet backbone any time soon, it's just so multi-national corporations have a CHEAPER means of transmitting data throughout the word for millionths of a fraction of a penny.. whilst we get the drippings of the freed up "overhead" in the lapse-excess bandwidth.. (and get charged MORE for it!)
THE BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Because this is in reference to what the PROCESSOR can do, not a server cluster. It does raise eyebrows, but for the topological implementation of a device of this magnitude, its inability to multiplex makes it pretty much ineffective to an extent.
http://www.kompetenznetze.de/navi/en/Innovationsfelder/Informationstechnologie/04nachrichten,did=144766.html
"The aim of the researchers was therefore to develop a chip that receives and processes the signal from the photodiode directly. The advantage is that a chip of this type can be mass-produced relatively cheaply, and complex modules made up of several components would no longer be necessary. The first products based on this prototype will be used some day at the switching centers of the large network operators where incoming data streams, such as trunk connections between large cities, are received at high speed. Here the optical signals have to be coupled out, converted into electrical signals and fed into the local copper cable network. Even the most efficient high-speed routes at the present time only carry data at a maximum of 40 gigabits per second - not even half as much as the new system recently tested for the first time.
This type of receiver system has to be able to detect the timing of the incoming high-speed data packages. This function is performed by a timing recovery system, a kind of inner clock that senses the rhythm, or in other words the pulse rate of the data stream. At data rates above 40 gigabits per second, a separate optoelectronic module is often necessary for this. The new chip on the other hand has an internal clock on board. The compact high-performance chip was manufactured using a predecessor version of Infineon's advanced silicon-germanium semiconductor technology "B7HF200" and measures just 1.7 by 2.5 millimeters - with terminals and housing that's approximately the size of a cigarette pack. "To check the viability of this integrated receiver we carried out a transmission test over a 480-km (300 mile) fiber-optic cable route together with the Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin," said Dr. Rainer H. Derksen, project coordinator at Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich. This test showed that it was possible to transmit and receive data without errors. "This was the first time that the feasibility of a purely electrical 107 Gbit/s receiver for optical transmission has been proven in practice."
A notable feature is that the receiver can be used for the future 100 Gbit/s Ethernet transmission system that telecommunications network operators are pushing ahead intensively at present. Ethernet - for the considerably slower rate of 1 Gbit/s or less - has long been an established standard for communication between computers in corporate and home networks. Since it is a particularly flexible method of transporting data it is also of growing interest for the large transmission networks. One of the advantages is that the high speed data packages no longer travel along permanently wired circuits to the end customer, but can be transported flexibly over alternative routes. This means that in future it will be possible to bypass overloaded route sections on which data traffic is particularly heavy - and thereby increase customer satisfaction. As the cooperation team has demonstrated, its chip is already fit for use in this network. - deags, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2divide by 8 so as the 2nd reply says 13.37500 gigabytes/s
- WildTang3nt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wish I lived in Sweden.. hot women, and more bandwidth than I could use, what more could you want? Ah well, the Canadian women aren't bad, but 7000/640 for $45 of our funny-money (or about $40 USD) per month sucks.
- buddyfarr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2wow, I didn't even notice that screwup. kinda hard to push an electrical signal through glass isn't it?? ha. how about pushing a light pulse? maybe that would be a lot easier...
- xsuite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1For the readers who dont understand how fast this is (including myself :P) how fast is 107 gigabits?
- 16777216, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Man am I getting ripped off!
320kbit down / 160kbit up for $31/month
But, that is the only option other than satellite for $100/month for a 1Mbit connect that is all I can get where I live.
Man this place sucks. :( - dd1973, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1can wait till it comes out.
- kaptainKraken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ya know what i looked at it and thought retard at first but then i thought about it some more and i dont think it's that bad on an idea. here's how i see this.
being able to have a giant conference call with thousands of people all at once would be kinda crazy it's the kinda thing they would want to do when they make a chorale so this way it one of the best way to get thousands of voices that are all different all at once. and recording it would be amazing. some loud some quiet. but the shier volume and cacophony of it would be nothing short of awesome.
anyways this would be great for recording because there's so many tests that we could try to perform on such an ensemble of voices all at once like frequency coverage.I can see this data bing used to optimize something like voice encoding, compression and optimization.
i just think not in terms of just a prank call but the actual call itself would be a feat of communication.
when in the history of the world has so many voices for such distant places be heard all at once. normally for massive amounts (thousands) of human voices to be all heard at once you need to gather said people in all one location first.
this would be so cool on so many levels.
i digg up the prank call as something fun and interesting both technically and socially. - itdood, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"electrical processing of data through a fiber-optic cable"
So the real breakthrough was pushing an "electrical" signal through a fiber OPTIC cable? - diktator279, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If they can name their company "Siemens", I'm naming mine "SupernippleboobiepenisCo... inc. " and there will be blackjack, and hookers.... aw screw the whole thing.
- beatbox32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wow, I've never achieved that sort of speed from my Siemens. Must need to 'work out' more.
- deags, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1i swear i read of some record in america of petabits/s
- dyvbond, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3May I be the first to say,
Holy.
*****.
Where do I sign up for 107gbits fiber optic? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2WOOOHOOOO!
MORE PORN! - EztliNahua, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6We will never hear about this again. At least, not in the US. I'm still on 5000/384 cable for $45 a month, and there is no fiber availability in my area.
- SniperZero, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Woo they got these nice speeds... we wont see it in our house for another 100 years >_>
- kmfdm, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Most DVD's are DL at these days. (meaning double the datacapacity of one sl-dvd)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1this record is broken every week, hardly news
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