German speed test assures NBN Co it's on right track
- 25 May, 2011 11:37
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German scientists breaking the world speed record for transferring data over a single fibre optic cable, has given NBN Co confidence that it’s on the right infrastructure track.
Scientists at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology sent data at a speed of 26 terabits per second covering a 50km distance.
According to the institute, this is equivalent to simultaneously transmitting up to 400 million telephone calls or the content of 700 DVDs per second.
“Tests such as this just go to show just why a fibre-enabled National Broadband Network is the best infrastructure for Australia’s future,” NBN Co CTO, Gary McLaren, said in a statement.
“The amount of data people are transferring across communications networks, especially video transmissions, is increasing all the time.
“As fibre optic technology improves, so too will speeds and the amount of data that can be carried over the network we are building today.
"This gives us confidence that we’re delivering the right communications infrastructure to sustain our nation for decades to come.”
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Hydrans
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Hold on Malcolm says that you can do better on Fibre, so I am sorry this story must be wrong.
Tony Tony, can you please get on board and tell everyone one that doesn't know that the speed of light will be obsolete in the next few years and that wireless is better.
gnome
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Yes, Hydrans, surely Lord Turnbull wouldn't mislead us when he infers that a combination of wireless and FTTN would be so much better than slow old FTTP.
Although we might take him more seriously if he wasn't quoting Korean infrastructure as being FTTN when in fact the system they are installing is FTTP with LAN internal access.
Just like NBN will be.