Terabit Ethernet Inches Closer To Reality 182
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from Australia, Denmark, and China have combined efforts to show the feasibility of terabit-per-second Ethernet over fiber-optic cables. The solution involves a photonic chip that uses laser light for switching signals, and a form of the exotic material type, chalcogenide, or arsenic trisulfide."
Re:Too early? (Score:5, Interesting)
I suppose you forgot about internet back bone links. Terabit Ethernet should hopefully enable Tier 1 ISP's to provide really fat pipes to ISP's so we can finally get more bandwidth. The bigger the backbones the faster our broadband can be. Well at least that's my fantasy. 100mbit boradband should be cake walk with tubes that fat.
Re:Still needs work (Score:5, Interesting)
Okay, I'm the author of the Ars Technica piece, and that make me laugh.
Talking to the researcher, Eggleton, made my head slightly explode, because he's looking 5 to 20 years into the future with the research he's on top of today.
But they have practical devices that show that the stuff can be hand-built, and that's what blows my mind.
The future isn't in plastics -- it's in glass!
Re:That's an aweful lot of porn. (Score:3, Interesting)
Being someone who works at a porn company with multiple dedicated lines buried under the ocean, I can say this is very true. We test all the equipment we have to the limits.
I worked for a lot of mom and pop companies that thought they had problems.
We are pretty much a dedicated Foundry and Cisco debugging team.
When a single server gets over 10,000 hits a second (yes, second, not minute) - it tends to stress your equipment.
Times that by a few hundred servers and you get the idea.
I used to deal with simple PHP and Apache issues before. Performance? Was never an issue.
Now half our stuff is written in heavily optimized C, our kernels are heavily tweaked and even Squid isn't fast enough to keep up.
We even have our own custom caching software.
Re:That's an aweful lot of porn. (Score:3, Interesting)
Prostitution, recommended by 9/10 doctors as less virus ridden than using IE for browsing porn.
Re:All-natural ingredients... (Score:3, Interesting)
You laugh (me too) but I'd sure like to know what we're going to do with all the Arsenic we have lying around. I mention it often, but here in Lake County California we have a superfund site full of the stuff. If we could bind it up and then dope something with it that would be very stable, it might give us a future use for the stuff that would let us not dump it into a concrete pit, fill it up, then pave over the pit, build some new walls, and add more arsenic.*
* I don't know that they're actually doing this with Arsenic at The Geysers geothermal power plant, but they are definitely doing it with other toxics. The superfund site is out of Middletown, where Calpine's office is/was located.