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Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second
New Atlas ^ | October 23, 2022 | By Michael Irving

Posted on 10/24/2022 12:45:39 PM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 10/24/2022 12:45:39 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: ShadowAce; Swordmaker

Petabit Ping!....................


2 posted on 10/24/2022 12:46:23 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Absolutely astonishing! I worked in the optical networks division of Nortel Networks for a while right before the tech crash in 2000. It was a wild time. The industry was laying cables with 1,000 strands of fiber and we were lighting only a few 10 Gbps DWDM channels on each strand. There was huge unused capacity on the one lit strand. Performance had gone up many orders of magnitude and prices came down a few orders of magnitude. The market got oversaturated very quickly and the whole industry went BOOM after that build-out. Here we are 22 years later and trucks for competing companies are laying last-mile fiber everywhere around Coeur d’Alene, pushing fiber to the home.

Who is going to use petabit networks? For what applications?


3 posted on 10/24/2022 12:52:06 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The “I” in Democrat stands for “Integrity.”)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Who is going to use petabit networks? For what applications?


Porn... porn has been the fastest adopter of all things internet over the past 30 years.


4 posted on 10/24/2022 12:56:57 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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5 posted on 10/24/2022 12:57:13 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

It’s amazing how fast tyrants will be able to spread a monumental volume of lies and gaslighting in one second.

Petabits of data and not one tiny bit of truth blowing across the Internet every second.


6 posted on 10/24/2022 12:58:35 PM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: Red Badger

Lotus Notes will stop it cold.


7 posted on 10/24/2022 12:58:47 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: Red Badger

What’s the per month charge for this type of service?

Can I bundle it with my cell service too?


8 posted on 10/24/2022 1:00:08 PM PDT by occamrzr06
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
In the early days of Free Republic, when I was surfing along on my 14.4kbps modem and people got pissy at you here if you so much as hot-linked an image (no, seriously, many modems at the time would choke while downloading a single JPEG), I was predicting that at some point in time, we would be able to store all the world's information on a chip the size of a fingernail and that all the movies and music in the world would be able to be streamed to you real time so you never even had to download anything anymore.

It sounded like science fiction at the time and that was only 25 years ago - late 1990s.

9 posted on 10/24/2022 1:00:31 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (4,353,227 active user on Truth Social)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Who is going to use petabit networks? For what applications?”

Download the whole knowledge base of mankind to your home server and live in the wilderness off grid. :^)

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Isaac Asimov


10 posted on 10/24/2022 1:01:55 PM PDT by BushCountry (A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $3.00 a gallon.)
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To: Red Badger

Is there fiber that can propagate that bandwidth without so much group delay that the data cannot be recovered after a short distance? It is impressive, but there may be more problems to solve.


11 posted on 10/24/2022 1:03:58 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

VR based graphics or 8k\16k graphics for everyone.


12 posted on 10/24/2022 1:04:32 PM PDT by NicoDon
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To: Red Badger
Big Brother Is Watching You.

Yes, something will surely be done with all that bandwidth.

13 posted on 10/24/2022 1:05:16 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Who is going to use petabit networks? For what applications?

Immersive high-resolution video streaming comes to mind. Gamers are going to love this.

14 posted on 10/24/2022 1:06:25 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: Red Badger

And all that traffic consisted of cat videos.


15 posted on 10/24/2022 1:07:00 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: BushCountry

Already 200TB SSDs are available. 1000TB SSDs might be around the corner. We had to get this technology from aliens. Ha.


16 posted on 10/24/2022 1:07:06 PM PDT by BushCountry (A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $3.00 a gallon.)
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To: Red Badger

Comcast will still have you holding for an hour


17 posted on 10/24/2022 1:08:06 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Red Badger

I’m also thinking Elon Musk will love this for his Starlink satellite internet. Forget fiber, the satellites will use this to talk to each other in orbit.


18 posted on 10/24/2022 1:09:51 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: Red Badger

Can you read it? Can you process it?


19 posted on 10/24/2022 1:11:31 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Skynet............................


20 posted on 10/24/2022 1:14:26 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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