Posted on 07/13/2007 12:29:04 AM PDT by Swordmaker
A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world's fastest internet connection.
Sigbritt Löthberg's home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed.
But Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, is no ordinary 75 year old. She is the mother of Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg who, along with Karlstad Stadsnät, the local council's network arm, has arranged the connection.
"This is more than just a demonstration," said network boss Hafsteinn Jonsson.
"As a network owner we're trying to persuade internet operators to invest in faster connections. And Peter Löthberg wanted to show how you can build a low price, high capacity line over long distances," he told The Local.
Sigbritt will now be able to enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously. Or, if there is nothing worth watching there, she will be able to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds.
The secret behind Sigbritt's ultra-fast connection is a new modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000 kilometres apart, with no intermediary transponders.
According to Karlstad Stadsnät the distance is, in theory, unlimited - there is no data loss as long as the fibre is in place.
"I want to show that there are other methods than the old fashioned ways such as copper wires and radio, which lack the possibilities that fibre has," said Peter Löthberg, who now works at Cisco.
Cisco contributed to the project but the point, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, is that fibre technology makes such high speed connections technically and commercially viable.
"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC," said Jonsson.
Actually, most of the civilized world has much better broadband than we do here in the US.
yeah, but 10 years ago, the real telecomtechnogeeks wanted an OC3.
HILARIOUS!
But the funniest line was:
“...and five Pakistani techs were dragged into their telephones by the suction when panicked Karlstad Stadsnät operators called tech support for help.”
No, didn't. It's 40 gigaBITS per second... divide by ten to get the real throughput in gigaBYTES.
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is “AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
>Blush<
Thanks.
As the Road Runner says...Beep Beep
“divide by ten to get the real throughput in gigaBYTES.”
Actually devide by 8, not 10. but agreed.
8 bits to the byte.
Get Root !
True, and we started to see optical interfaces about 10 years ago in the cellular world, but most of the central office equipment providers at the time weren't making a lot of switching equipment that would interface with fiber. So, converters were required and it all wound up going back to copper anyway.
I basically have a "T1" with my current DSL connection. I get 1.5Mbps download, 384Kbps upload. You probably do too.
Hell, the DS3 circuits at the office are only about 45Mbps each.
I don't know what you'd call this link that she's got!
;)
This doesn't say anything about the Mac, or even AAPL or any of its products. But it does say that "The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC."
Damn you! Not only did you beat me to the joke, but you made it better. Note to self: read thread before posting.
Actually devide by 8, not 10. but agreed.
8 bits to the byte.
For storage, that's true. For serial transmission, though, each byte requires a 'start' bit and a 'stop' bit. It's long been a common practice to divide by 10 rather than 8 to convert a serial bit rate to a byte transfer rate.
Let’s see...
A T1 is 1.544 Mb/s, and this lady’s connections is 40Gb/s, which is appx. the equivilent of 20 OC48s. You could download enough to fill a Terabyte hard drive in about 4 minutes.
The mind reels!
Things have changed a bit. I’m working for a major cell carrier right now, and I’ve got dozens of OC-3s at my disposal. The far end is still cell sites, though. Bell has improved on their T1 testing ability, although the CWA still sucks. Probably the same grizzled old farts you used to work with.
It’s all optical now. Copper is becoming obsolete.
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