Think Google Fiber's fast? Nokia to show off tech that's 1,000 times faster

[ScienceRocks]

Think Google Fiber's fast? Nokia to show off tech that's 1,000 times faster

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Researchers will this week demonstrate a newly-refined data-transmission technique that can deliver one terabit per second (Tbps) over optical fiber.

Nokia Bell Labs, Deutsche Telekom T-Labs, and the Technical University of Munich will be showing off how a technique called Probabilistic Constellation Shaping, or PCS, can deliver blistering 1Tbps speeds over a fiber connection.
The work provides more momentum behind the push to bring terabit networks to reality. It follows another optical breakthrough earlier this year by researchers at University College London, who achieved speeds of 1.25Tbps.
To put that in perspective, they noted it was fast enough to download an entire Games of Thrones series in high definition within one second.
Of course, thanks to streaming services such as Netflix, video bingeing doesn't require downloading a whole series at once and 5Mbps will suffice for HD-quality streaming.
Still, terabit-speed networks will meet growing demand for higher-capacity core networks, thanks in large part to streaming. Terabit speeds will present a major leap forward over current internet-backbone network limits of 40Gbps to 100Gbps.
For comparison on the consumer side, Alphabet's Google Fiber embryonic US fiber-to-the-premises service is offering 1Gbps connections.

The faster the better!

 

[SixFoot]

That's what she said!

On a related note, it is key to understand the difference between bits and bytes. 1 teraBITS per second is 125 GigaBYTES per second. Still blazing-fast, obviously.

1 Tbps sounds great. 125 GBps sounds more accurate. The difference is in the lowercase "b."