Bell Labs Break Record With 31Tbps Via a Single 7200km Optical Fibre

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Posted by timothy on Thursday July 18, 2013 @02:17PM from the faster-than-a-speeding-bullet dept.

Mark.JUK writes "Alcatel-Lucent's research and development division, Bell Labs, has successfully broken yet another record after it used 155 lasers (each operating at different frequencies and carrying 200Gbps of data over a 50GHz frequency grid) and an enhanced version of Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) to send information at a staggering speed of 31 Terabits per second over a single 7200km long optical fibre cable. Previous experiments have been faster but only over shorter distances or by using a different type of fibre optic cable entirely."

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Too bad (Score:5, Funny)

by MrEricSir ( 398214 ) writes: on Thursday July 18, 2013 @02:20PM (#44320073) Homepage

Too bad the bandwidth cap is only 1 GB per month.

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Wonderful! (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday July 18, 2013 @02:33PM (#44320255)

Wonderful! Now my porn collection will download in mere MINUTES!

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obligatory NSA tie-in (Score:5, Funny)

by NikeHerc ( 694644 ) writes: on Thursday July 18, 2013 @02:43PM (#44320379)

This was likely at the request of the NSA so they could download all our traffic quicker.

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Re:Microsoft already did this (Score:4, Funny)

by tom17 ( 659054 ) writes: on Thursday July 18, 2013 @02:54PM (#44320491) Homepage

What medium are you throwing it in, treacle?

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Bell Labs Break Record With 31Tbps Via a Single 7200km Optical Fibre

Too bad (Score:5, Funny)

Wonderful! (Score:3, Funny)

obligatory NSA tie-in (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Microsoft already did this (Score:4, Funny)

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