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IBM researchers have demonstrated a prototype optical transceiver chipset they say will allow people to download data or movies online eight times faster than current technology allows.

The chipset can move data at 160G bits by representing information as light pulses instead of electrons and could be used for both corporate and consumer applications as soon as 2010, IBM said. Consumer demand for digital media such as movies, music and photos has caused an explosion in the amount of data being transferred over the Internet, and underlined the need for greater bandwidth and connectivity.
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One of those innovative, good ideas that will probably be shelved due to economics and politics.
 
mashie said:
I doubt we ever will see that kind of speed going to an end user. You would need to watch 1600 HD TV streams in parallell to even be close to saturate that bandwidth.
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I have a feeling the same sentiments were expressed by people working on a 2400bps BBSs 15 years ago regarding multi-megabit connections to the home. I think we will see this class of speed to a neighborhood, if not directly to homes, within 10 years.
 
taqueso said:
I have a feeling the same sentiments were expressed by people working on a 2400bps BBSs 15 years ago regarding multi-megabit connections to the home. I think we will see this class of speed to a neighborhood, if not directly to homes, within 10 years.
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This isn't really an issue about need. If it's available someone will put it to use. I think it's more an issue of ISPs not wanting to invest in the rebuilding of their infrastructures that would benefits it customers. The all mighty dollar you know.
 
taqueso said:
I have a feeling the same sentiments were expressed by people working on a 2400bps BBSs 15 years ago regarding multi-megabit connections to the home. I think we will see this class of speed to a neighborhood, if not directly to homes, within 10 years.
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I doubt that this would be possible. It's not about need or want... I know I want something like that, however, there is the question of money. To reroute our entire infrastructure to something like this would be in the hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions. We have a hard enough time to convince ISP's to upgrade to things such as OC1092, let alone this to EVERY home. Also it's about consumer money too, the more money the infrastructure costs to maintain, the higher our costs are... so consumers would love a fast connection, if they are willing to pay the premuims.
 
ryan_975 said:
This isn't really an issue about need. If it's available someone will put it to use. I think it's more an issue of ISPs not wanting to invest in the rebuilding of their infrastructures that would benefits it customers. The all mighty dollar you know.
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Dead on! I've been waiting years for Verizon to make their touted FIOS DSL available in my area,but I guess it's not high rent enough for them.
 
Personally, I'm waiting for the "optical chipset implant" that downloads pr0n directly to my optic nerve. Everything else is just :rolleyes: .
 
Steve said:
Personally, I'm waiting for the "optical chipset implant" that downloads pr0n directly to my optic nerve. Everything else is just :rolleyes: .
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lmao. Then you wouldn't have to worry about the wife catching you watching porn :D. hmmm....wait....nevermind....
 
Steve said:
Personally, I'm waiting for the "optical chipset implant" that downloads pr0n directly to my optic nerve. Everything else is just :rolleyes: .
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Where do I enrol in the beta testing? ;)
 
taqueso said:
I have a feeling the same sentiments were expressed by people working on a 2400bps BBSs 15 years ago regarding multi-megabit connections to the home. I think we will see this class of speed to a neighborhood, if not directly to homes, within 10 years.
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And here we are, 15 years later, with 10-base ethernet speeds largely unavalible, and anything above 1mb/s for upload is hard to find. I really cant, by any stretch of my imagination, see 1.28Tb/s internet connections to the home in 10 years.
 
Steve said:
Personally, I'm waiting for the "optical chipset implant" that downloads pr0n directly to my optic nerve. Everything else is just :rolleyes: .
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rofl. Certainly validates the claim that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," eh? :p
 
This is technology that companies theorize about to say hey look what we could do you dumbasses!!! but thank you for the overpriced mbit though.
 
I don't understand what difference it makes if you can optically connect all the way to your CPU if the fastest ISP here in the US, Verizon, can only provide 15Mbit/2Mbit with their fiber.

To do what these guys are talking about we'd need 1500Mbit/200Mbit. That's completely pie in the sky and how in hell can that happen by 2010 considering where we are now? The next internet upgrade is going to increase speeds by 100x?
 
bob said:
And here we are, 15 years later, with 10-base ethernet speeds largely unavalible, and anything above 1mb/s for upload is hard to find. I really cant, by any stretch of my imagination, see 1.28Tb/s internet connections to the home in 10 years.
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I have 16mb to my home.I have 3mb or so up.
 
CyberDeus-RagDoll said:
I have 16mb to my home.I have 3mb or so up.
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Great. Your 1/3rd of the way there...

But, (if im following this correctly) what youve said is almost like saying : I have a cadillac, that must mean everyone else also has a cadillac.

XTN Data survey, for the UK 2006:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/17/broadband_speed/
Its survey of 1,000 broadband users found that the average speed in the UK is 1.92337164 mbps

http://www.internetworldstats.com/am/us.htm 2006:
The vast majority of cable customers receive between 2.5 megabits per second (Mbps) and 10 Mbps in at least one direction, while most DSL customers receive between 200 kilobits per second and 2.5 Mbps, according to the FCC.

Im not quite that drunk, and I there wont be many people here who would disagree. Home internet connections have been decades behind new fast technology as far as bandwidth is concerned.
 
10 years ago 50kBit was normal, today many have 5-15mBit, I foresee .5 - 5Gbit in 10 yaers. 100+ seems too high.

Though you never know, the major providers might actually decide to put money back into their networks so the U.S. doesn't continue to have pathetic Internet access....

nahhhhh, it'll never happen.
 
Nemesis999 said:
10 years ago 50kBit was normal, today many have 5-15mBit, I foresee .5 - 5Gbit in 10 yaers. 100+ seems too high.

Though you never know, the major providers might actually decide to put money back into their networks so the U.S. doesn't continue to have pathetic Internet access....

nahhhhh, it'll never happen.
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10 years ago, 56k was just being introduced. Even if you had a 56k modem, most of the time the best you could hope for was 33.6k. But, my town was also just rolling out it's cable internet system at a whopping 256k up and 64k down at a mere $125/month. :)
 
Advil said:
I don't understand what difference it makes if you can optically connect all the way to your CPU if the fastest ISP here in the US, Verizon, can only provide 15Mbit/2Mbit with their fiber.

To do what these guys are talking about we'd need 1500Mbit/200Mbit. That's completely pie in the sky and how in hell can that happen by 2010 considering where we are now? The next internet upgrade is going to increase speeds by 100x?
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You can recieve internet connection speeds to your home up to 40gbps if you can afford it.
 
Something to think about is that technology seems to typically exhibit an exponential growth pattern, but humans tend to extrapolate the increases linearly based on their recent experiences.
 
After the gov. forces the ATSC television upgrade, i can see it being much easier for them to force an upgrade to the rest of our capitol (power lines, Internet lines etc)
 
Furystrike said:
After the gov. forces the ATSC television upgrade, i can see it being much easier for them to force an upgrade to the rest of our capitol (power lines, Internet lines etc)
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The biggest thing about forcing digital tv isn't for technologies sake, its to free up lots of airwaves that the stations will no longer need that the government can lease to other industries/companies.
 
My former boss actually knows the guy who is developing this. If I stayed at that company, I could have gotten one of the very first motherboards, but then again, I got paid crap, so I left :p

..I wonder if I'll still be able to get one....hmm :D
 
BoogerBomb said:
The biggest thing about forcing digital tv isn't for technologies sake, its to free up lots of airwaves that the stations will no longer need that the government can lease to other industries/companies.
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Correct. Allowing pr0n to download faster would do nothing for the government whereas moving to digital TV has a lot of advantages for them.
 
Ockie said:
Correct. Allowing pr0n to download faster would do nothing for the government whereas moving to digital TV has a lot of advantages for them.
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Well, if you think about it... TV Stations could move to an internet medium rather than air waves. That would free up all the TV space for the FCC's pleasure. But then again, what about people who don't have Internet. nah will never happen.
 
ryan_975 said:
Well, if you think about it... TV Stations could move to an internet medium rather than air waves. That would free up all the TV space for the FCC's pleasure. But then again, what about people who don't have Internet. nah will never happen.
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You ever heard of IPTV? :rolleyes:

You don't need 160gbit/s to view hd content, shit, you can do 1080p with a fraction of that.
 
taqueso said:
Something to think about is that technology seems to typically exhibit an exponential growth pattern, but humans tend to extrapolate the increases linearly based on their recent experiences.
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Beat to the punch....but so very true so I quote you.
 
Ockie said:
You ever heard of IPTV? :rolleyes:

You don't need 160gbit/s to view hd content, shit, you can do 1080p with a fraction of that.
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You don't need 160gbit/s to watch a single 1080p stream, but what about sending that stream to 10,000 watchers?
 
ryan_975 said:
You don't need 160gbit/s to watch a single 1080p stream, but what about sending that stream to 10,000 watchers?
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I think you are confusing 160gbit to home vs to business.

Businesses already have the connections to facilitate large distributions of IPTV HD content.
 
Ockie said:
I think you are confusing 160gbit to home vs to business.

Businesses already have the connections to facilitate large distributions of IPTV HD content.
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True, but how many conections are aggregated to reach those requirements? 10, 20? Imagine 20 160Gbs aggregated connections.
 
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