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I think you can now put 800 gigabit per second today, via commercially available kit, down a single strand of fibre installed back in the early 1980s. Copper o
by CraigJPerry 4y ago
I think you can now put 800 gigabit per second today, via commercially available kit, down a single strand of fibre installed back in the early 1980s.
Copper or radio connections just don’t seem like as worthwhile an investment to me. I’m not saying it makes sense to have an 800gbit connection to a residential property but from a longevity, cost per mile, use of less rare materials, reduced rf interference or whatever, fibre just seems a better proposition to me.
- theideaofcoffee 4y agoThe current commercial state-of-the-art is quite a bit higher, 25.6Tbps or thereabouts using a full 40 channel/color DWDM and 400g modules. But yes, copper or RF is IMO a non-starter for any new deployments.
- CraigJPerry 4y agoThat’s fantastically impressive
- Bluecobra 4y agoThat’s the beauty of single mode fiber, you can use the same pair for something as slow as 10 Mbps to 800 Gbps. Makes a lot more sense from a data center perspective too, since you can continue to reuse the existing cable plant and just need to upgrade your NICs, transceivers, and switches.