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Europe and Japan Aiming to Build 100Gbps Fibre Optic Internet
- robmil 13y agoAs a Londoner who recently got a 1Gbps up/down connection, I can't wait for this; the limiting factor in saturating my connection is now the rest of the 'net, rather than my own connection — which is actually oddly frustrating. Catch up already!
- acchow 13y agoWhat is your actual speed? With a server in Germany? US? Japan?
- rasur 13y agoIt makes one think that perhaps delivering content via a protocol such as BitTorrent is not such a bad idea, since often a limiting factor can be the upstream bandwidth of a site (although obviously this might not work too well for all use-cases, a Torrent-based CDN of some type might still have some kind of future).
- Locke1689 13y agoWithout some special agreement from the upper tier service providers or a Ono-like plugin, this is probably not a good idea.
- rasur 13y agoI would be very grateful if you could go into a little bit more depth with regards to what you mean here on both the special agreement and the ono-like plugin (a google for this showed nothing pertinent, but maybe I'm just being especially dumb?). Thanks!
- Locke1689 13y agoSure. Ono is a plugin for the Vuze/Azureus Bittorrent client[1]. It attempts to find peers closest to you. The reason why increased Bittorrent traffic is that the Bittorrent protocol doesn't require any specific selection of peers. This means that you can have excessive traffic from other areas, which plays havoc with Tier 1 ISP peer agreements. If the protocol isn't modified to work in conjunction with peering, I would expect ISPs to simply kill Bittorrent traffic. [1] http://aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/projects/118-ono-reducing-p2p-cross-isp-traffic-while-improving-users-performance http://aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/projects/118-ono-reducing...
- rasur 13y agoThanks - I see your point now. You're right, finding closer peers would be very beneficial in this case.
- UVB-76 13y agoI have 120Mbps down (Virgin Media, also in the UK), and even with that bandwidth I have the same problem. There aren't many online services that can chuck >100Mbps at a single user.
- jlgaddis 13y agoWhat sites or services exist where an average person might legitimately need that much throughput? The most common "bandwidth hog" that I know of is video (specifically, Netflix and Youtube) and even those won't use more than around 5-6 Mbps per stream.
- anigbrowl 13y agoIs this business or personal? I'd be interested to know how much that costs.
- robmil 13y agoPersonal, with Hyperoptic. It's £60/month, but that includes a phone service.
- mtgx 13y agoGood, future-proof goal. We'll need better Wi-fi technologies, too. 802.11ac is nice, but 2x faster speed doesn't seem like a huge improvement after 5 years or so of research (802.11ad doesn't count).
- Systematica 13y agoApparently 100Gps wireless already exists, not that they'll let the general public have access to the technology for the next 30 years... http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2012/12/14.aspx http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2012/12/14.aspx
- packetslave 13y agoThe current problem with 100gb is it's really expensive to implement the backhaul. A 100gb linecard from Juniper is between $250-500k list!
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- virtuallynathan 13y agoYou can get them for MUCH lower than that - the line card & optics costs of 100G are falling pretty quickly. Newer routers with >4x100G (e.g. 10x) will be pretty interesting (CFP2).
- ceph_ 13y agoThe way the article conflates backbone link speed with end user connection speeds really irks me. For backbone link capacity, yes native 100G interfaces are a step forward, but not in the way most people are going to assume. 100G of capacity is not a significant amount, either in 1x100G or 10x10G, when you already have optical transport equipment that can mux over 5T of capacity onto a single fiber pair. It is exciting the increases 100G coherent DWDM technologies bring in raising the capacity as well as the reach of transport systems.
- packetslave 13y agoAs we continue to shove more and more bits down a single strand of fiber, 100gb+ interfaces are going to continue to be more important, though. It doesn't scale to send 5T down an optical system if you still have to break it out into tons of 10gb LAGs to use it.
- joshbaptiste 13y agoheh.. I bet the NSA can't wait to sink their hands in this link.
- ksec 13y agoThere is definitely a need. In 3 years time we could get Dual 10 Core CPU on a server with PCI-E Based SSD card at insane IOPS speed for a very reasonable price. So very soon, year or so we will be bottlenecked by our Network Port. And I dont see 10Gbit Ethernet price coming down anytime soon.