Download Hd Movie In 1 Second

delivi

Jun 1 2007, 03:00 PM

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IBM has developed an optical transciver that can transfer data at a rate of 160GB/s, fast enough to download a High-definition movie in aount one second.

This was announced by IBM at the OFC/NFOEC Conference and Exposition in California, held during the March.

This technology was developed as a part of a program sponsered by the DARPA (Defence Advanced Reserch Projects Agency) to speed up communications between supercomputers.

FolkRockFan

Jun 1 2007, 07:14 PM

I'm always amazed when we manage to increase Internet speed by any significant number. I don't know why it still impresses me - I mean, we've had high-speed Internet for years now and there have been many improvements during that time. But it's still neat to hear about what we're figuring out.

srujanlive

Jun 1 2007, 07:56 PM

Yeah the speeds continue to increase bit by the time they reach the common man, it would be many many years..

Striker9099

Jul 5 2007, 09:00 PM

wow that's really alot of speed! too bad in my stupid country the fastest internet we got is DSL and it's not yet available through out the whole country (it hasn't reached my city yet) so I'm still on a very slow internet connection

Hopefully such technology will be available in my country because we really need these sorts of significant improvements!

GamerGlitch

Jul 6 2007, 07:23 AM

I need a connection like that. I have an alright connection, sort of fast right now, Time Warner Cable (Road Runner), but it could always use improvement.

dreem

Jul 6 2007, 07:31 AM

in that much speed, every one will prefer to stick on internet, for downloading. Is that kind of DSL ?

Evil Guy

Jul 6 2007, 07:43 AM

dude that thing is fast

Qazster

Jul 9 2007, 05:14 AM

Hmmm I believe that even though the client has that kind of speed the server would also have to have a similar amount of speed also correct?

galexcd

Jul 9 2007, 06:30 AM

Inventing new technology to go suck high speeds does seem a bit excessive. I find humans to be rather impatient. I look back to bout 7 years ago when I had dial-up and quite a slow computer, and didn't even mind waiting, but now if I were going to use that again I'd probably destroy the computer out of frustration. Even now our connection speeds and computer speeds seem decent but I can't help but think that in 20 years we are going to wonder how we could even stand these computers we use now. This technology is quite amazing, but I think it would be better if instead of inventing new technology to go 100 times faster than what the average person has, how about work on bringing current technology to the person. If we have the technology to have a transfer rate of 160GB/s, we should be able to be making half that, and cheaply and accessible to the average internet user. I know that T1 lines can go quite fast, but those are so expensive usually only large corporations use it.

I wouldn't be surprised if houses started to come with a second dedicated line for the internet in the near future. Pretty soon the internet and the phone won't have anything to do with each other anymore. New houses will be built with a line going to a station which is owned by many major ISP's. The line remains unused until you sign up for service with the ISP then you get an extremely fast connection with a much cheaper price than a dedicated line costs nowadays.

Anyway I'm just letting my mind wander. This was a very interesting find. My mind will still be thinking about this for some time.... 160gb a second... wow...

Will.Allison

Jul 19 2007, 08:22 AM

That is amazing. I can't wait until anything even remotely close to that becomes the standard. For todays technology, I think that the standard internet speed is pathetic. And yes, Alex you are right. The human race is extremely impatient but that does not mean we should not strive for improvements.

I stumbled upon this article where a 75-year-old woman has the fastest home internet speed at 40gbps. Even half that would be awesome if it was the standard.

The way technology is growing, I bet I will get my wish pretty soon.

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patrickcurl

Jan 7 2008, 04:07 AM

I got to say, I remember the dialup days, then I found cable, and fell madly in love....

Now that I have fiber to the curb, 15mbps up and down, well.. I'd probably leave my wife for 160gb/s. LOL

rayzoredge

Jan 4 2008, 09:39 PM

QUOTE(faund @ Sep 10 2007, 10:33 PM)

That's great!
How to deal with the last mile? I think that's the question.

You were the only person to have mentioned this.

For those of you who don't know why I was surprised at the mentioning of "the last mile," here's a quick cap on what this means:

Last-mile technologies are the mediums that separate outside access lines to the cables that go to your DSL/cable/fiber modems and introduce what is called "the last-mile problem." Basically, the technologies that connect the consumer to the network we know as the Internet are incapable of processing/feeding the transfer of data from access lines as quickly as it is actually received, so the performance of the entire system is bottle-necked at that last-mile technology. This is mostly physical limitations of the hardware, but some ISPs actually limit the transmission bandwidth speeds within their modems. (I believe Verizon limits their bandwidth and charges its customers for a simple modification to the modem itself to allow higher speeds for their FiOS service. Some cable ISPs may do the same.) This means that with a bit of know-how, you can access better speeds with physical changes to the hardware (whether it be a switch, a jumper, or even a whole different component to lessen these restrictions).

Anyway, I suppose that this wouldn't be bottle-necked since the modem hardware itself would be a special build allowing for that kind of bandwidth to jump back and forth. In the case of the Swedish woman's ultra-fast connection, they were actual routers designed for that sort of speed (with hardware using a new sort of modulation/demodulation method).

I'm sure that this will only be available to people and/or entities that have the money for a dedicated line. But our speeds are getting up there. With the exclusion of last-mile technologies, Verizon FiOS offers 15MB/s of upload/download transfer rates.

Zenten

Jan 4 2008, 08:47 PM

Considering the united states has yet to provide high speed broadband internet to most of its citizens, I don't see this as an economical for some time to come. I suspect that it will initially be used for short distances in office building data networks and such. Personal use of this technology is currently reserved for the likes of Bill Gates and will be for some time to come. Cool to think about though!

mahirharoon

Dec 30 2007, 12:36 PM

now hackers could be high speed
(download the victim's pc in 1 second)

Bruce517

Dec 29 2007, 04:42 AM

wow.... i dont even know what to say to that.... that is crazy you could send like the whole contents of a computer in a second lol.

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