Bell Labs Transfers DVD In 2.3 Milliseconds

By WebProNews Staff - Wed, 03/05/2008 - 8:22pm.

We need a new word for fast

Imagine downloading the remake of Casino Royale in the time it takes to blink. One experiment by Bell Labs managed to accomplish some astonishing speeds.

Just don't wait for your friendly neighborhood ISP to offer comparable speeds anytime soon.

The Royal Pingdom blog said Bell Labs managed a transfer rate of 2.05 terabytes per second. You won't find the equipment to handle that for sale on the shelves of big-box electronic retailers.

Even more impressively, Bell Labs accomplished the transfer speed over a distance of some 1,584 miles. This is a harbinger of 100Gbps Ethernet, according to Information Week.

Royal Pingdom also noted how Google transfers data retrieved by the Hubble Space Telescope by FedEx rather than through electronic transmission. It would take longer for Google to move 120 terabytes of data over the Internet than shipping it by overnight delivery.

Bell Labs' experiment would transfer that same amount of data in a minute. Not even FedEx can beat that speed.

News Tags: Technology, Data Transfer, networking, Bell Labs

Comments

Submitted by Guest (WPN reader) on Mon, 03/10/2008 - 12:34pm.

What are we thinking

It's just a search engine for Christ's sake! Either Google is tremendously overvalued, or Yahoo is ridiculously undervalued. Either way, I wouldn't want to have Google in my stock portfolio…not now when its stock is clearly in a landslide. I do wish that I’ve bought it when it was half the current size.

Submitted by Guest (WPN reader) on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 9:09pm.

Wow Can't wait till the technology is adopted

Looking forward to the day it becomes standard, probably quite a few years off.

Submitted by Guest (WPN reader) on Sun, 03/09/2008 - 8:48am.

psh, yeah

but that certainly won't be in the US. The US are behind on bandwidth compared to other countries in the EU significantly, pretty sad. Gov't needs to realize that the internet is key.