If only we had nationwide FTTP

A team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory led by Chinese-American
professor Zhang Xiang has developed a broadband technology so fast it would
enable the download of an entire 3D movie in only a few seconds. The
breakthrough, which could be available to consumers in three to five years,
was made possible by the team's invention of a graphene-based optical
modulator.

Read more at:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/20...t_12654194.htm

In article <ZK-dnX-L-(E-Mail Removed)>,
John <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>A team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory led by Chinese-American
>professor Zhang Xiang has developed a broadband technology so fast it would
>enable the download of an entire 3D movie in only a few seconds.

Yes, but can it do anything useful?

-- Richard

Richard Tobin wrote:
> In article <ZK-dnX-L-(E-Mail Removed)>,
> John <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> A team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory led by Chinese-American
>> professor Zhang Xiang has developed a broadband technology so fast it would
>> enable the download of an entire 3D movie in only a few seconds.
>
> Yes, but can it do anything useful?
>
> -- Richard
Looks like it. should enable about ten times plus speeds on fibre.
Wont be used in local loop th..more likely to be used to up the traffic
on backbones.

On 08/06/2011 19:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Richard Tobin wrote:
>> In article <ZK-dnX-L-(E-Mail Removed)>,
>> John <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> A team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory led by
>>> Chinese-American professor Zhang Xiang has developed a broadband
>>> technology so fast it would enable the download of an entire 3D movie
>>> in only a few seconds.
>>
>> Yes, but can it do anything useful?
>>
>> -- Richard
> Looks like it. should enable about ten times plus speeds on fibre.
> Wont be used in local loop th..more likely to be used to up the traffic
> on backbones.

Looks to me as though it'll mostly drop costs, not bring speeds up. How
many links are there needing more than 10Gbit?

Andy

In reply to "(E-Mail Removed) (Richard Tobin)" who wrote the following:

> In article <ZK-dnX-L-(E-Mail Removed)>,
> John <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > A team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory led by Chinese-American
> > professor Zhang Xiang has developed a broadband technology so fast it would
> > enable the download of an entire 3D movie in only a few seconds.
>
> Yes, but can it do anything useful?
>
> -- Richard

I think being able to download stuff that quick is a use in itself, you posting
on usenet after all... home to all the content you could ever possibly want...


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Meanwhile, at the uk.telecom.broadband Job Justification Hearings, Andy
Champ chose the tried and tested strategy of:

> Looks to me as though it'll mostly drop costs, not bring speeds up. How
> many links are there needing more than 10Gbit?

Given that it would take only 10 ordinary desktop PCs to saturate a 10Gb
link, then I would guess that we're talking millions of connections, at
least.

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