There is a great advancement in the world of fiber-optic. I have bring out the most amazing story for you as i was searching for my networking lab assignment and found this news. This extreme fiber-optic is expected in 2010.
KDDI’s collaboration with Japan’s National Institute of Information & Communications Technology has shown off the world’s most fastest speed fiber-optic cables. This cable is extreme fast as compared to the normal fiber-optic used globally it can give a result 10 times faster as to the older one.
This cable can have transmission of 30 Terabits per second, really its too fast this speed means that you can transfer 720 DVD’s worth of 2 hours in just a single second. The company dreams to spread this fiber-optic around Japan to recover some money invested in the project.
Just a minor point TB is Terra bytes while Tb is Terra bits.
Cool subject but people need to read their work out loud to themselves so that what they are writing makes sense. What’s up with that last paragraph?
I hope you realize that TB means Terra-bytes.
True 30Tb/s is like 3GB/s wich still is amazingly fast
do really hope we get those lines afterwards. we are still on lame 1.5 mb (but something are wrong whit the isp who rent lines from telenor.???. now im only get speed at 620 kb when it should be at least 1.09-1.92 mb pr sec.a intern network could yse this speed for connecting many nas HD drivers to these at full speed. but 6 gb pr sek on hd drives could these hardrives realy cope whit this high speed. and you would need a mainboard who support tera bits (bites).and the overload of up and down would need a wery powerfoul cpu and ram who read at atleast 6 tb on evry stage.
I’d like to point out that what you mean is 30Tbps (terabits per second) as opposed to 30TB, which is 8 times as much.
There are 8 bits in a byte. Therefore this cable can transfer a lot faster than 3GB/s. Its transfer speed is 3.75TB/s. HOWEVER. This is no use to us. This is of limited use to anyone. The fastest hard drives around transfer at up to 1GB/s, and to reach the limit of the new 10Gbps (Or 1.25GB/s) of the shiny new ‘thunderbolt’ will be hard. To reach the limit of 3.75TB/s will be IMPOSSIBLE for a long time yet.
To those complaining about internet speeds, this is not the cable that will save your internet traffic jam. We already have internet speeds to homes up to 100Mbits/s. The issue you have is probably not paying enough for internet that fast.
hi bob, i understand what your are saying but with the new advances in solid state hard drives i dont think it will be that long untill most standards for hard drives is 10Gbps, i have an external just to try it out and as far as I can tell it reads and writes at about 6, which is alot faster than the “custom” i built two years ago, but i do have to agree with you on the point that for the end user this will not increase the speed of the internet a fraction of a bit, as with everything money is the grease that makes all wheels turn faster.
This fiber optics is not designed for hard drive or personal use. It’s the main trunk of internet transmission. In some countries, 1Gb Internet connection is available to residential users. That means a 30Tb line is only sufficient for 30000 users.
Your all wrong. 30Terbits (Tb) is 3840 GigaBytes (GB)… Tim, your wrong – its not like 3GB – its way more
Thanks for updating David