A New Twist That Could Speed the Internet

[dfergie]

Researchers at Boston University and the University of Southern California, in collaboration with Danish optics company OFS Fitel, with funding from Darpa, may have just raised those limits. The team’s fiber-optics experiments have transmitted data at 1.6 terabits per second.

Source & More: businessweek.com

 

[navychop]

If this gets adopted, I see L3's stock taking a tumble.

 

[mike123abc]

I do not see it really being a fiber capacity issue yet. They lay fiber down in bundles and they can easily go to 2 or more fibers as needed for a connection. Maybe for underseas cables or something where they have used up all the strands.

 

[KE4EST]

Years before we will see this

 

[Ramy]

I bet we don't see this for at least 5 years maybe 10

 

[Stargazer]

You got to start somewhere and it's a good start. I remember seeing something like this in regards to wireless technology they are trying to come out with to increase speeds and reduce interference/refraction issues as well, where they spiral the signal.

 

[Teehar]

Neat stuff.I recently heard about a google experiment in New Zealand,they are using balloons for wifi service,they have to replace them every 100 days but still much cheaper than satellite.

 

[Stargazer]

I was reading about Google's experiment as well. It is called "loon". They are using unlicensed 2.4 GHZ from the balloons and unlicensed 5 GHZ up to the balloons. They are using cheap Ubiquiti radios along with solar power to do the job.

I have read for years about blimps and weather balloons for wifi but nobody has really done anything other than for use with military.

There was another balloon experiment I was reading about where they were putting GPS transmitters on them so when they land they would pay people such as farmers to retrieve them. I do not know what came of that.

 

[JerryDowning]

Neat stuff.I recently heard about a google experiment in New Zealand,they are using balloons for wifi service,they have to replace them every 100 days but still much cheaper than satellite.

No latency problems either.