Researchers create two 100 terabit per second optical connections, dare us to torrent something

Even a woman with a 40 Gbps internet connection might feel a twinge of jealousy at this news — Japan has successfully tested two separate 100 terabit per second data links that use a single optical fiber to carry their loads. New Scientist reports that NEC scholars stuffed the light from 370 lasers into 165 kilometers of fiber to achieve a speed of 101.7 Tbps, while NICT researchers set a new record of 109 Tbps using a special fiber with seven cores to manage the trick. We imagine that Alcatel-Lucent and NTT aren’t sitting still. Not that we really care who has the fastest fiber… just so long as one end leads to our house. Researchers create two 100 terabit per second optical connections, dare us to torrent something originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 01 May 2011 16:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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