Remember that pair of 100 terabit-per-second connections we told you about earlier this moth?
The researchers were able to send a total of 1 terabit of data 40 kilometers.
Mukesh Chatter's company, Nexabit, created a terabit router, a kind of digital traffic cop on steroids.
When terabit technology becomes viable, you can send and receive virtually instantaneous and high-quality images over the Internet.
This gives a total capacity of 1, 600 gigabits, or 1.6 terabits (a terabit is a thousand gigabits), per second.
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But early next decade, Global Crossing (or its slayer) could sell a terabit fiber-optic connection for a penny an hour.
Terabit research has a long way to go, particularly on overseas transmissions.
As Google grows towards 10% of all Internet traffic, will the multi-media search giant squash all competitors under its chrome-plated multi-terabit steamroller?
The new installation is being overseen by two Facebook IT alumni, and is expected to feature roughly one terabit of overall capacity.
The new installation is being overseen by two Facebook IT alums, and is expected to feature roughly one terabit of overall capacity.
The delivery would need a trillion bits, a terabit, per second.
The terabit breakthrough potentially amplifies GIBN possibilities thousands of times.
"It has been a long-time dream for all optical researchers to reach the terabit per second mark, " says Kuwahara Hideo, one of the 20 researchers at the Fujitsu lab.
The key to cracking that nut is apparently the new thermal assisted optical element Fujitsu's developed, allowing for an ultra-tiny sub-hundred nanometer optical spot size, which in turn should enable recording on the one terabit (not byte, let's not get crazy here) per square inch level.
This technology will enable a terabit (Tb) of data storage in a small package using just 8 semiconductor die (this is 128 GB since there are 8 bits per byte). 128 GB capacity may be a common capacity node for the next generation of flash memory based products.
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