Photonic chip clocks 44-Terabit internet speed network speed

[Baron Greenback]

An Australian research team has recorded the fastest ever internet speed from a single light source – an absolutely astounding 44.2 Terabits per second. That’s more than 44,000 times faster than the highest speed connection available to consumers today.

The fastest internet speed available to consumers is Google Fiber, which clocks 1 Gb/s. The US Department of Energy’s dedicated science network, ESnet, maxes out at 400 Gb/s.

I heard of Lifi instead of Wifi using light and hope this will be for you and me and not DoE/google etc! But looks like optical fibre as the source!

https://newatlas.com/electronics/44-terabits-inter...

[anonymous-user]

And what eactly is able to push any meaningful amount of data into a 44.2 Tbs network link? That's some pretty fast RAM.......

[Alias218]

Max_Torque said:

And what eactly is able to push any meaningful amount of data into a 44.2 Tbs network link? That's some pretty fast RAM.......

I think at this point it is more proof of concept than a practical solution to bandwidth limitations. However, given we as consumers used to be quite happy with 56kb/s services not that long ago, it isn't unreasonable to foresee a day when we may need throughput like this, particularly if telecoms infrastructure can be reduced to a smaller number of multiplexed fibre lines. 44.2Tb/s may be of some use then.

[Gandahar]

Max_Torque said:

And what eactly is able to push any meaningful amount of data into a 44.2 Tbs network link? That's some pretty fast RAM.......

Considering our postie delivers 3 Petabytes per day of junk mail through our post box I hope he doesn't read about this....