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« on: September 28, 2009, 10:12:38 PM » |
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BOFFINS AT BELL LABS, the research arm of networking firm Alcatel-Lucent, have managed to set an optical data transmission speed record of more than 100Pb per second.kilometer.
To accomplish this feat the researchers combined 155 lasers, each capable of carrying 100Gbps of data, and offset the frequency of each beam to minimise interference, essentially boosting the performance of standard Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology.
Those doing the maths will realise that this amounts to a network speed of 15.5Tbps, but data was successfully sent over this connection for a distance of 7,000km, giving the final bit per second.kilometers result - a standard measure for high speed optical transmission.
Not that a fine upstanding company like Alcatel-Lucent would ever suggest illegally downloading movies, music or games, but it does point out that this data transfer speed record is the equivalent of transferring 400 DVDs per second over 7,000 kilometres.
That's 1984 GB/s......
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« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2009, 08:54:49 AM » |
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smokin fast
give it about 10 years before we the public
would ever see (prob never) anything like this.
co.co.
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« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2009, 05:02:56 PM » |
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LOL...give it 10 years before the ISP's we use convert their backbone to this...at least in my area...
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« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2009, 07:19:14 PM » |
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It would be nice to have a pipe so wide open that our read/write speed becomes the bottleneck instead of the connection speed. Guess I need to go to solid state..
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« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2009, 08:49:36 PM » |
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Correction, you need to go to (4) solid state drives running in a RAID 0 config!
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« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2009, 10:58:56 PM » |
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Correction, you need to go to (4) solid state drives running in a RAID 0 config!
Right, $2k for the 1TB of storage it would get me. I'll stick with SATA for now. |
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« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2009, 01:41:32 AM » |
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You could buy little 128GB drives for pretty cheap.
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« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2009, 08:58:26 AM » |
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Correction, you need to go to (4) solid state drives running in a RAID 0 config!
that would be sooooo sweet co.co. |
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« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2009, 11:30:20 PM » |
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That's what my next build will have in it, only I'll probably run it in RAID 5 instead, though since I have the NAS system setup at my house now I really don't need the RAID 5.
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« Reply #9 on: October 02, 2009, 12:38:30 AM » |
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I'd wager that the rest of your hardware and software would be too slow for you to see ay benefit of running solid state drives as a striped array. Even running two disks, I doubt the rest of your machine would be able to keep up with it. Of course, I am not a hardware guy, so I could be totally wrong.
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« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2009, 12:58:02 AM » |
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Well in addition to the (4) SSD drives, I will have a minimum of a 12 core CPU running 4GHz or better, I will have 18GB of DDR3 RAM, I will have at least one GTX 395 video card, top of the line Asus motherboard for better overclocking results, so based on my research I will not have any bottlenecks except for my internet connection and I am probably gonna get one of those Killer NIC's to reduce ping, also that NIC will handle all TeamSpeak 3 processing when TS3 becomes available.
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