World’s Fastest Wireless Link

[HardOCP News]

CSIRO researchers have announced that they have achieved a six gigabits per second over a point to point wireless connection. That is fast enough to download almost 10 DVDs a minute. Wow.

Multi-gigabit links operate at speeds that leave current wireless networks far behind. For example the entire works of Shakespeare could be transmitted over this six gigabit link in under seven thousandths of a second or a full DVD movie in just over six seconds.

 

[GJSNeptune]

Ridiculous! Sounds like an expensive endeavor though. How long will it take to commercialize it?

:drool:

 

[Xilikon]

Ridiculous! Sounds like an expensive endeavor though. How long will it take to commercialize it?

:drool:

Maybe but for a WAN connection between building without wires, it's a nicer solution than laying fiber especially on large cities, where it's technically hard to do without disturbing the surrounding.

 

[knight3058]

What's the use of having these connection speeds when hard drives cannot transfer this fast?

 

[Ockie]

Now they just need to funnel it though to consumer products and I'll be a happy man.

 

[GJSNeptune]

What's the use of having these connection speeds when hard drives cannot transfer this fast?

Shh! Maybe the routers will have a few Raptors for temp cache

 

[Chipotle]

If you build it, they will come.


As far as when it will be available, who knows. IEEE is not known for giving quick certifications. But then again, if this group gets it working, I wouldnt be surprised to see a bunch of draft crap out on the shelves like there is with draft N.

 

[pgwalsh]

Now they just need to funnel it though to consumer products and I'll be a happy man.

Exactly... When is it going to be usable by the rest of us. You hear about these things often, but I'm still stuck with comcast at 3.2 to 6 MB a second. Time for some real bandwidth. With service like that, on deman over net becomes more realistic.

 

[cmshowers]

...or a full DVD movie in just over six seconds.

6 gigabits for 6 seconds = 4.5GB. A "full DVD movie" this is not. Although I suppose Steve's "10 DVDs a minute" comment isn't technically wrong. "10 DVD-Rs a minute" would be more accurate.

 

[RandomNY]

Think of the high definition p0r streaming

 

[BoogerBomb]

10 years before any of this hits the shelves if we are lucky. All these look at our insane speed things use technology that maufacturers arent interested in producing yet.

 

[bob]

Wireless backhaul for ISPs, connections between office buildings. Motorola canopy... anyone ever hear of that? http://motorola.canopywireless.com/support/knowledge/index.php?page=index_v2&id=308&c=15

As far as I know, this is about as fast as it gets. None of this is cheap, but im sure there will be companies lined up in the coming years, looking forward to 6Gbps... especially from a company like cisco.

 

[CyberDeus-RagDoll]

What's the use of having these connection speeds when hard drives cannot transfer this fast?

This has been true for some time. There are 10GB, and 100gb wired networking technologies in place already. There is a way to transfer that data through distributed storage/caching tech so that it is usable.

6 gigabits a second = 750megs a second. You telling me that, when at HOME people have 50megs a second we can't come up with a tech that can store the data?

 

[CyberDeus-RagDoll]

This has been true for some time. There are 10GB, and 100gb wired networking technologies in place already. There is a way to transfer that data through distributed storage/caching tech so that it is usable.

6 gigabits a second = 750megs a second. You telling me that, when at HOME people have 50megs a second we can't come up with a tech that can store the data?

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=15160
100Gb ethernet, over a year old.

The purpose is not so that you can 'warez' incredibly fast. It's so that 4000 people can get a 1.5megabit connection at the same time.. wirelessly

 

[FLECOM]

well the system they developed is running at 85ghz so i wouldent forsee it being used for anything but point to point connections... also when you get that high weather can wreak havok on your signal....

it would be pretty much improbable to make a "home" 85ghz ap that would have any sort of acceptable range (on the bright side small antennas = huge gain due to the insanely high frequency and therefore small wavelength)