networking University of Illinois Achieve 57Gbit/s Speeds through Fibre

[Blackie Sheen]

11 hours ago, Aytex said:

You can litterly install GTA 5 within 2 seconds

Gigabits not gigabytes. 1 gigabit is 1/8 of a gigabyte. It would still be a crazy fast download though

[brwainer]

At first I was confused because I know 100Gb/s fiber links already exist, but it turns out those existing links either use multiple frequencies over a single fiber core, or multiple fiber cores. So if this new result is a single frequency over a single fiber core, that is indeed an impressive improvement.

[Energycore]

15 hours ago, Cedimedi said:

Yet 10Gigabit is still not mainstream.. after nearly 10 years

Tell me about it. I'm still on 100Mbps.

 

But I don't (yet) have a NAS to be fair.

[79wjd]

14 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

oh sure I've seen plenty of gigabit speeds - my uni has that too - but he's at the place that made this happen... we need some speed smuggled out  

I'm sorry, but it's mine and you can't have any. 

[NateGSR117]

I would love just to get GB/s at my house 

[mach]

Australia will have it in two or three centuries. 

[Scotter97]

I am curious to know what type of fiber cable was used in this test?  (single mode or multi mode).  Right now, the max bandwidth achieved on multimode, over multiple strands, is 40 gigabit.  I could be slightly off in that fact, but this leads me to think they pushed multimode or just used single mode.

[brwainer]

3 hours ago, Scotter97 said:

I am curious to know what type of fiber cable was used in this test?  (single mode or multi mode).  Right now, the max bandwidth achieved on multimode, over multiple strands, is 40 gigabit.  I could be slightly off in that fact, but this leads me to think they pushed multimode or just used single mode.

The article doesn't say but it does mention a new type of laser, and usually laser based fiber optics means single mode I think (I'm probably wrong though)