IBM Opens The Door To 400Gbps Internet

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Internet speeds of up to 400 Gbps? Yes please!

Swiss researchers from the company have developed an ultra-fast and energy efficient analog-to-digital converter (ADC), in what IBM claims is a move towards allowing datacentres to share information at four times the speed possible today. The device, developed by IBM with researchers from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, was presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco today.
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Based on how long it takes to adopt new standards, I imagine it will be over 15 years before anything like this is really implemented, and another 10 years for near every ISP to have it.
 
Maybe in 30 years.
The public will be the last ones to have access to it.
 
PCunicorn said:
Based on how long it takes to adopt new standards, I imagine it will be over 15 years before anything like this is really implemented, and another 10 years for near every ISP to have it.
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And you'll still pay based on a tiered structure of maximum possible speed, expect 1Gbps to initially start at about $500/month.
 
You are going to need a hell of a lot more than a fast ADC to build a 400Gbps link...
 
ATT and Verizon (the ONLY two widespread ISP's in the near future) will make sure you'll never see these kind on speeds in your village, town, city, metroplex, etc... Now, they will ask (and get!!!!) for a shitload of money from Uncle Sam to "upgrade their networks to better serve their customers".... Business as usual....:rolleyes:
 
mzs_biteme said:
ATT and Verizon (the ONLY two widespread ISP's in the near future) will make sure you'll never see these kind on speeds in your village, town, city, metroplex, etc... Now, they will ask (and get!!!!) for a shitload of money from Uncle Sam to "upgrade their networks to better serve their customers".... Business as usual....:rolleyes:
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Regardless of what you think about those two companies, this type of speed isn't capable to a wise spread, consumer type usage. This stuff can be adopted for high end backbones. Plus the equipment you would need to process that data real time or even to get marginally close to those speeds on the user end is outrageous.
 
Yeah right. I can see the same arguments having been said with 10 base T and T1 speeds. It might not be in North America but somewhere it will be.
 
I'm betting you won't get this for $ 29.95 a month, even if the technology is there who is going to wan tto pay the price the ISPs will charge, Americans want fast but cheap too, not sure you will get fast and cheap.
 
Sweet with my new oligopoly comcast TWC cable I can eat up my bandwidth in one second for the month.
 
Trimlock said:
Regardless of what you think about those two companies, this type of speed isn't capable to a wise spread, consumer type usage. This stuff can be adopted for high end backbones. Plus the equipment you would need to process that data real time or even to get marginally close to those speeds on the user end is outrageous.
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I don't think anyone is seriously expecting those kind of speeds to your door. However the argument that the bandwidth is precious which is why we need data caps will still be in play I'm sure. And paying progressively more for different tiers of service for what equates to the same exact equipment and costs to the company will still be a part of the equation.
 
sfsuphysics said:
I don't think anyone is seriously expecting those kind of speeds to your door. However the argument that the bandwidth is precious which is why we need data caps will still be in play I'm sure. And paying progressively more for different tiers of service for what equates to the same exact equipment and costs to the company will still be a part of the equation.
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I'm pretty sure there are people out there who see the headlines and wonder why they don't have it. And I agree with the rest of your post.
 
There are 40 Gb links now. Guess what I can get at my house? 10Mb, tops. People are still barely able to get 100Mb. 1 Gb is still very limited in areas. 400Gb? Maybe in a couple decades it will be where 1 Gb is now.

ISP's won't just upgrade for no reason. Little competition so no reason to bring faster speeds at the same price.
 
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