Terabit Eternet, that's right. TERABIT!

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/te...pts_proven

I kinda squeeled a little on the inside.. seriously. Seems too good to be true, lol. Fiber Optics is currently one of the fastest types of cables right now, imagine 'Terabit'. x_x 40 GB per seconds seems way too incredible to even comprehend.. This article interested me because I'm majoring in Computer Information Systems at the moment.

...that's pretty crazy. That type of bandwidth would change so many things on the Internet.

L> New hardware to keep up plz

I work in fibre optics and optical networking and I've never heard of this at all...

The most I've worked on is 40G, although some of my coworkers are on 100G at the moment. The fact that the article states that 40G is still the "cap" on our capabilities makes me second guess the trustworthiness of the reporting...

Heck, there's even been trials with live traffic at 100G, such as Nortel's on the Comcast backbone, which completed succesfully as far back as last year...

I saw this on G4.

I drooled. It's pretty amazing the power that can be used >_<

I work in fibre optics and optical networking and I've never heard of this at all...

The most I've worked on is 40G, although some of my coworkers are on 100G at the moment. The fact that the article states that 40G is still the "cap" on our capabilities makes me second guess the trustworthiness of the reporting...

Heck, there's even been trials with live traffic at 100G, such as Nortel's on the Comcast backbone, which completely succesfully as far back as last year...

Where and what company do you work at? 100G? I'd like to look more into this.

I work at Nortel, which is why I used that example. I know it the most I'm in R&D on their Ottawa, Canada campus. More specifically in product verification, where I try to break their stuff and get paid for it. They filed for Chapter 11 recently. Hurray for job security...

Anyway, most of the customers (ie the Verizon, Comcast, SLG, Vodaphone, etc. type of companies) are just starting their migration to 40G, so 100 won't be a staple for a while but it's not just a pipe dream either.

Supposedly, our solution is great and such because it's one of the very few where there's no need to lay down new fibre (which is prohibitive because it's insanely expensive to do) . Of course, that's coming straight from the upper management, so who knows how much of it is true and how much is BS :-P

Just do a google on 100G and you'll get a bunch of stuff... There's been demos with Verizon and Comcast that I know of, although there's probably more. I know that for the Comcast one, they used live customer traffic (ie people like you and me). For Verizon, I think it was simulated traffic, using test sets.