Siemens Reaches 107 Gbps Data Transfer Record 161
prostoalex writes "Reuters is reporting on Siemens engineers reaching 107 Gbps data transmission record over a fiberoptic cable, and expects the technology to be on the market within a few years: "The test, 2.5 times faster than a previous maximum transmission performance per channel, was done in cooperation with Germany's Micram Microelectronic, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications and Eindhoven Technical University of the Netherlands.""
Excellent, but... (Score:2, Insightful)
Children of lock-in. (Score:1, Insightful)
I assume that's related to the institute that gave us the "proprietary" MP3?
Re:How viable is it over longer distances? (Score:5, Insightful)
Also the infrastructure for telecom is quite large, you'd be surprised how much stuff is running underground.
Re:Thats nothing (Score:2, Insightful)
That's a lot of DVDs (Score:3, Insightful)
Damn, I can barely keep up with the 5 DVDs at a time I get from Netflix.
Re:How viable is it over longer distances? (Score:3, Insightful)
sigh... of course the distance matters, the higher the span length the higher the attenuation and dispersion!
sigh... if they say they can do 107Gb/s that's because they can fire up the laser on one side and get it with an acceptable bit error rate at the other side. These tests are not based on sending something to
Re:107Gb/s = 13,696 MB/s = 13.375 GB/s (Score:5, Insightful)
almost
The bit is the amount of data you could store on a single coin if you had a code worked out placing it either heads up or heads down. Ones and zero's. A byte would therefore need 8 coins.