NTT Sets Download Record at 14 Terabytes Per Second
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by Mike Zazaian October 2, 2006 - 12:46pm, 43 Comments
The speed was achieved over a 100-mile-long fiber optic cable, improving upon the previous 10 terabyte per second record by almost half. At 14 terabytes per second the transfer rate would be the equivalent of downloading approximately 3000 DVD-quality movies in a single second.
Most of the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation’s (NTT) network is currently using fiber optic lines, but speeds across the network currently top out at 1 terabyte per second, with users achieving downloads of 1Gbps. And while internet users across South Korea and Japan already enjoy the high speed transfer rates that fiber optics offer, networks across the US predominantly use co-axial cable. Speeds offered by co-axial connections are significantly lower, however, with the fastest consumer broadband nework, Verizon’s FiOS, topping out at 50Mbps down and 5Mbps up. But even with Verizon achieving such speeds, most networks, such as those of Comcast and AT&T, currently allow users only 5Mpbs down and 500Kbps up.
[via ars technica]
holy good fuck that is some serious download rate. 3000 dvd quality movies in 1 second !!!!
joebob
Eeeeish this one is very fast yo yo
snowman
Your telling me! I would love to see that type of connection available for the end-under
Pincus
Takes the piss, but where will this be used ?
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I sure wouldnt mind downlaoding that much all at one
Readers Digest
You’d have to have a hell of a HDD to use it. You’d burn up 14T a second. You’d burn up a 100T drive in 7 seconds. If you downloaded for just 1 minute, you’d need 840 Terabytes of harddrive space.
Pointman
Hard drives cant write that fast, not even close.
No
ya thats crazy, i didn’t even know drives could read or write that fast.
t_bizz
there is no point of it when u don’t need them, at least two gig per second would be nice and make them sell it in public, if not then whats the point of those speed they are inventing or research !
nixon
for communications, that seems like a very logical display.
sorosliev
wooah! O_O thats a whole lot of pr0n!
nhabte
go on japan!
fatalone
I beleive this is the measurements across the line, somehow measured, because there is no way hard drives write and read that fast, computers are not up to that speed yet, no conventional network cards could handle those kinds of speeds.
I would like to see how much they spent on the gear to transmit data that quick. You will quickly see how this kind of technology will not be available for a LONG time.
However, this was very suprising and exciting the first time i read it.
Richard
[quote] Takes the piss, but where will this be used ? [/quote]
maybe cross atlantic fiberoptics
its not going to be going to your front door for a long long long time.
it could also be used by isp’s to build there core network to handle all there users at 100mbps
wont be to long before cpu’s are communicating by fiberoptic instead of copper they have the technology to put tiny transmittors and recivers inside silicon based cpus
Neil
A lot of you are confused. This type of connection is NOT MEANT for the user. It is meant to be the back bone of the internet and communication services. A connection like that allows multiple users to download at high speed. Think before you post.
james
wow, i need more Hard disks.
where sell it?, i like only one.
h2o_mx
excellent! Good job lads! A lot of new technology is near us, looking forward to better internet connections in the UK… especially the upload side of things. The networks behind the internet that will all be using this type of setup in future will vastly improve the services available to us all. To be honest, i wish they would look into silent, non rotating hard disks with very fast data transfer speeds, like 10x SATAII. Thats would be very nice.
As for now, dont rush out and invest in the latest modem/router. Wait about 5 or 10 years…
Fozzardeh NI
I’m pretty sure that they are only going to release this kind of tecnhology for the Internet2 project.
Mokey Butt Sniffer
too bad the US market is too cheap ass to fund such an experiment… good ol’ $500 or cheaper computers FTL
arth
what about virus problems?
78000 at 1 time?.
will be able to use it in 2500 ch.
Rachid
At $200,000.00 per copyright infringement, you could rack up $600,000,000.00 in fines in just one second!!
AHenriksen
Why do they keep saying “mpbs” and not “mbps”? whoever wrote this article is retarded.
cal
that sucks big time!
who the fuck in this world has a hard drive for that connection?
it’s waaaaaaayyy 2 much!
:))))))
qwerty
All porno in 1 second.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
LOLOLOLOOOLOLOOLOLOL
Holy crap you guys are idiots:
This connection is not for users. You wouldn’t be able to write the amount of incoming data to a hard-disk fast enough; but most importantly, to reiterate, it’s not for a single person to use:
“It is meant to be the back bone of the internet and communication services.”
Andrew
Yes..that’s a lot of pr0n.
Tommy Lee
You mean the internet has a spine?
Glen
sounds good to me
Sue
NICE, Is all i have to say. lets start weeding out these shity Internet so called HIGHSPEED with something we can use. i would be happy with a 5mps connection. Qwest sucks. 14TB a sec standard Motherboard has a 800mhz bus you can hook to it but will only Download as fast as your computer. And 14TB a sec would be like 1GB a sec on a PC now. THATS the shit.
Keep it up!!!!!
Project Seven Networks
TuneN2Fate
Americas telecommunications speed is only like 9 terabytes/second, we’re so fucking lame
meh
Good……….
But I Have Better Connection 256 Kbps Unlimited
LOL
Amrit
if you all would read the site you would know dumb asses
read
What I think when I see this is how big rating I would manage in torrent uploading , you can open like 500 upload slots with 10 trackers and 50 different torrents at once and transfer such a blow-minding data
john doe
2 all you guys who says we r idiots because we imagine us haveing 14 Terabytes.. why does that make us idiots? we r just dreaming and u gotta admit.. 14 terabytes?!??!?! dude…
2AllWhoDestroysOurDreams
I’m a fibre-optics engineer, in long-haul networks, and I can tell you this would exist only on a test-bed in a lab somewhere, and not in the real world.
The 100 mile link, would be a single reel of single mode fibre, on the shelf, no real metro deployment here.
Do you know of a router that could handle this data rate?
Interesting, all the same.
Erik
Yo-yo like a flow-go
This shit is the shit yo!
I cant believe im this getho yo!
Not only that yo! But im a nerdy-nerd nerd yo!
Yo
Ry-DAWG
14 TBps…. this means that 76.456 users can downolad at the same time with s-ata speed… like reading directly from a hdd!!!! but with a single line for 100.000.000 milion computers counting in U.S. the speed is 1,17Mbps per computer… so stop dreaming….
ALEXANDER
i think it is a fake information
akshit
i got a 2tb hard drive which writes at over 60mbps so that means even if i had that speed, i can only download 3.6gb of stuff per minute
Kool_kid333
To those of you whom are calling people idiots and saying this will only be used as an isp backbone you are wrong.
At first maybe and as technology creeps forward, there will be hardware designed to support these speeds and when the infrastructure is laid in place then who says we wont be receiving those speeds?
computers wont even need to have hardrives as the connections to the net will be so quick everything will be stored in solid state memory or some type of memory thats even faster!
You people forget computing technology is still in its infancy its amazing to think where we will be in 10, 20, 30 , 40 , 50 or 100 years time.
Harry
I am an NTT customer here in Japan. I have fiber run to my home. I have to say.. is crazy fast. On average from newsgroups I get about 6.5 MB/s Thats megabytes, not bits. Its extreamly fast and I cant seem to understand why the US cant climb out of the stone age and lay down some friggin fiber.
Screwfunk
6AKip1 hi! its a nice site!
martin