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Caltech Sets New Data Transmission Record: 186 Gbps
Advancement Will Help Hadron Collider Data Analysis
Physicists at Caltech say they've set a new data transmission record, transferring data in opposite directions at a combined rate of 186 gigabits per second (Gbps) in a wide-area network circuit. "The rate is equivalent to moving two million gigabytes per day, fast enough to transfer nearly 100,000 full Blu-ray disks—each with a complete movie and all the extras—in a day," the researchers note. The tests were conducted in conjunction with multiple universities and the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). CERN has a particular interest in faster transfers, given the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has generated more than 100 petabytes that needs to be transferred around the country for analysis.
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mod_wastrel
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Just wait...

till they get those FTL neutrino-tubes working. Data will arrive at Point B right before it was sent from Point A.

sk1939
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Why is this news?

As far as I know, you can already send several hundred gigabits over fibre by utilizing 40 gig ethernet and multiplexing it.

ArrayList
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ArrayList

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Re: Why is this news?

b/c theses guys didn't have to multiplex it
meta
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Re: Why is this news?

Again, not news.

Infinera »www.infinera.com/ (number 1 market share for carrier DWDM backbone gear in north america) has multi-hundred-gigabit super-channels available.
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Also this news

Bit deep into the field but very promising. Ironically it comes on day Library of Congress showed off some sounds from Alexander Graham Bell experimental discs 1880s played on a computer. Article also mentioned this history bit:
During this time, Bell sent the first wireless telephone message on a beam of light from the roof of a downtown Washington building — a forerunner to modern fiber optics.
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»www.physorg.com/news/201 ··· nap.html
Optical fiber innovation could make future optical computers a 'SNAP'
zed260
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Re: Also this news

said by sludgehound:

Bit deep into the field but very promising. Ironically it comes on day Library of Congress showed off some sounds from Alexander Graham Bell experimental discs 1880s played on a computer. Article also mentioned this history bit:
During this time, Bell sent the first wireless telephone message on a beam of light from the roof of a downtown Washington building — a forerunner to modern fiber optics.
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»www.physorg.com/news/201 ··· nap.html
Optical fiber innovation could make future optical computers a 'SNAP'

its quantum entanglement that will change the way the internet works wont need fiber at all then or copper etc and no latency ether imagine being on mars and playing YouTube without even a millisecond delay

»www.newscientist.com/art ··· ide.html

we are getting closer everyday soon we could have the technology to build latency free internet that can send data faster then light

vpoko
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Re: Also this news

You misunderstand entanglement. It isn't thought to allow communication (see "no communication theorem", »lesswrong.com/lw/q2/spoo ··· ication/ )

Entanglement does seem to be real, and it seems like it will be useful in building quantum computers that can solve certain problems (a very small known set of problems, as of right now) like factoring faster than classical computers can (so much faster that previously intractable problems will be tractable), but this is unrelated to faster-than-light. There's no current known path to FTL communication, and the prevailing belief is that it's impossible. Nobody knows, of course, but it seems less than likely right now.
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Re: Also this news

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No ··· iewpoint

some who think it can and some who think it cant truth be known no one fully understands the quantum universe

»www.dawn.com/2011/12/09/ ··· ama.html

»www.guardian.co.uk/scien ··· eutrinos

regardless we know vary little about some of the new stuff cern is discovering and who know what we may find etherway a quantum computer or quantum internet if that is even possble will not be around for another 20 years

»www.physorg.com/news1935 ··· 675.html

they where able to send one photon a single bit of information over a great distance

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Re: Also this news

said by zed260:

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No ··· iewpoint

some who think it can and some who think it cant truth be known no one fully understands the quantum universe

Quantum physics is full of bizarre phenomena that defy intuition, but it doesn't enable the impossible. Sending information faster than light, by quantum entanglement or any other means, would violate special relativity. End of story.

As for the faster-than-light neutrinos, it's only a statistical result with all kinds of possible explanations and is contradicted by other studies -- for example:
»arxiv.org/abs/1110.3763v2
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what I didnt get why this was only done now-we just now got the tech to replay a wax disk or cylinder?!?
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hmm

I can see this helping at Brookhaven national labs. They are the US Tier 1 lab for the atlas detector. They get all the data directly from CERN and then distribute it to labs and universities around the US. They also have their own data from the RHIC they have to compute and send around also. I would think this could help greatly.

PS anyone in the NYC area they give free tours of their computer facilities . They also have live webcasts with the LHC team all the time.

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Can you provide a link to the tours, that would be something I would like to check out

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Should be on the site
»www.bnl.gov/world/

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When will this be available?

for 14.99/mo & no caps!

Noah Vail
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Re: When will this be available?

said by RVAguy:

for 14.99/mo & no caps!

I was thinking they'll have to invent new technology to measure how fast they hit their cap.

NV
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Re: When will this be available?

said by Noah Vail:

said by RVAguy:

for 14.99/mo & no caps!

I was thinking they'll have to invent new technology to measure how fast they hit their cap.

NV

and how quickly they get their first piracy lawsuit.
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Re: When will this be available?

said by Kearnstd:

said by Noah Vail:

said by RVAguy:

for 14.99/mo & no caps!

I was thinking they'll have to invent new technology to measure how fast they hit their cap.

NV

and how quickly they get their first piracy lawsuit.

MPAA & RIAA probably have already filed a pre-emptive takedown notice on the grounds that it *could* be used to 'offer' every film & recording ever made.
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Re: When will this be available?

Yeah, I thought it was kind of funny that the story right away references how fast you can download movies
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I was a small part of it...

I work at Vanderbilt University. We were streaming data from our WAN storage system to SC2011.

The ironic part is, I go to work and have one of the fastest networks on earth. I go 15 miles away to my parent's house, and I can't get anything better than 22k dialup.

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Re: I was a small part of it...

It's going to stay that way for a very long time!

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Yeah. Colleges have always had the fastest internet connections. It was invented there after all.

Actually, the internet was reverse engineered from a UFO, but lets not get into that.
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How are the bittorrent loads on the network? Any seedboxes on campus?