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Internet Data Transmission Record Shattered by Danish Researchers

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Transmitting data over the internet is something that just happens for most of us, but the infrastructure that's powering the internet is full of bottlenecks and researchers around the world are testing new ways of being able to transmit more data using already installed fibre. A team of researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has managed to break the data transmission record by quite some margin, using something called a frequency comb, which is a photonics chip. The team of researchers hit a data transmission speed of an insane 1.84 Petabits per second over a distance of 7.9 kilometres—or 4.9 miles if you like—using standard fibre optic lines.

This equates to more than the total volume of global internet traffic that's being sent every second, according to DTU. Although the distance is far from the longest, as a team of Japanese researchers have managed to transmit a 319 Terrabit per second datastream over a distance of 3,001 km (1,864 miles), although they used signal amplifiers every 70 km to reach this distance. The DTU team's frequency comb was made by Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and it breaks down the infrared laser that's being used to transmit the data, into a rainbow spectrum, where each colour corresponds to a frequency equivalent. This allows multiple streams of data to be encoded with data, before being re-integrated and sent as a single infrared laser signal over the fibre. According to DTU, without the frequency comb, they would've needed more than a thousand lasers to achieve the same speeds using state-of-the-art commercial equipment. The team at DTU expects to be able to hit speeds of up to 100 Petabit per second in the future.



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1.81 Jiggawatts? :twitch:

I mean, 1.84 Petabits/s? Impressive! I wonder what this achievement will mean for common people in the future.
 
I don't mean to sound like a complete moron when I say this but, I think my brain might have melted a little bit while reading this. Cool beans nevertheless though!
 
This technology is not new. It has been used in Tel co since at least 2001. There was an article in Scientific American about this it's called WDM. The fact that it has been now proven that it can work on the actual line itself instead of equipment is the innovation. If this is applied commercially it could make 10 GB more common. That could make the size of modern Games a moot point in terms of how long it would take to download and probably make WIFI unsatisfactory in a home environment as a modem equipped with WDMs running on a line that has WDMs could be truly epic in terms of speed. There is literally no interference on the line making data transmission truly strictly limited by hardware.
 
1.81 Jiggawatts? :twitch:

I mean, 1.84 Petabits/s? Impressive! I wonder what this achievement will mean for common people in the future.
It means they'll be able to burn through their monthly data cap in 8 minutes instead of 14.
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This technology is not new. It has been used in Tel co since at least 2001. There was an article in Scientific American about this it's called WDM. The fact that it has been now proven that it can work on the actual line itself instead of equipment is the innovation. If this is applied commercially it could make 10 GB more common. That could make the size of modern Games a moot point in terms of how long it would take to download and probably make WIFI unsatisfactory in a home environment as a modem equipped with WDMs running on a line that has WDMs could be truly epic in terms of speed. There is literally no interference on the line making data transmission truly strictly limited by hardware.
It's actually a DWDM. And no, you are limited by the number of lambdas and the FO cable used. Sure, with a fat underwater cable you can reach insane speeds but good luck terminating it at home with an SFP.

Thankfully in Canada ISPs must offer a no more than $10 Unlimited option on all of their packages.
Ironically, Eastern European countries, while notorious for many things, have carzy FTTx offerings for ~$8 per month. But wait, it gets better - no piracy prosecution whatsover! You can leech whatever you want with nobody caring at all.
Not to mention some decent VPN options and the cheap price of renting servers there...
 
This technology is not new. It has been used in Tel co since at least 2001. There was an article in Scientific American about this it's called WDM. The fact that it has been now proven that it can work on the actual line itself instead of equipment is the innovation. If this is applied commercially it could make 10 GB more common. That could make the size of modern Games a moot point in terms of how long it would take to download and probably make WIFI unsatisfactory in a home environment as a modem equipped with WDMs running on a line that has WDMs could be truly epic in terms of speed. There is literally no interference on the line making data transmission truly strictly limited by hardware.
That depends on the area as well. Here at my place, the maximum landline speed available is still around ~30 Mbits/s that I have to pay 26 ridiculous British pounds for.
 
nVidia driver devel team be like: :toast:
 
The topic is: "Internet Data Transmission Record Shattered by Danish Researchers"
Let's stay on this topic.

Thank You.
 
Now what kind of router and switches technologies needs to be build in order to transmit this kind of speed over the Internets?
 
ronically, Eastern European countries, while notorious for many things, have carzy FTTx offerings for ~$8 per month. But wait, it gets better - no piracy prosecution whatsover! You can leech whatever you want with nobody caring at all.
Not to mention some decent VPN options and the cheap price of renting servers there...
not just them we have FTTH here in NZ and I've never had my ISP bitch at me for sharing torrented files they just couldn't give two shits about what I do on my 2Gb/2Gb unlimited data connection last month i d/l'd 3TB's of stuff no a single word of complaint was said about it
 
not just them we have FTTH here in NZ and I've never had my ISP bitch at me for sharing torrented files they just couldn't give two shits about what I do on my 2Gb/2Gb unlimited data connection last month i d/l'd 3TB's of stuff no a single word of complaint was said about it
There are exceptions, ofc. NZ and SWE come to mind. Even some towns in the U.S. of A. but torrenting copyrighted stuff is regulated differently.
 
Nothing, just like many other researches which have been woooooow, then suddenly vanishes.
Would you have 100Mbit FTTH today if some mad scientists didn't achieve the same in their lab in the eighties?
 
It is weird that people living in the so called first world countries still have data caps, while people in 3rd world countries don't, then you remember there is a place called the United States :D
Capitalism is all for data caps to make you pay for yet higher caps, Capitalism will also fight against this level of tech, cant have consumers happy with their ISPs, long enough until they have abused it in such a way to profit from it.
 
Capitalism is all for data caps to make you pay for yet higher caps, Capitalism will also fight against this level of tech, cant have consumers happy with their ISPs, long enough until they have abused it in such a way to profit from it.
That's why it's called cap-italism. Or maybe not?

Would you have 100Mbit FTTH today if some mad scientists didn't achieve the same in their lab in the eighties?
You probably meant 1000Mbps? 100Mbps is done over 4 strands of copper nowadays.
 
In backwater Netherlands we're finally getting FTTH if at least 20% of the local populace applies for a connection. Free install... the whole shebang... and I get to pay slightly less for 1000/1000 than I'm paying now for a shitty 5MB/s VDSL... I'm lobbying like a mofo over here...

But its crazy how slow the adoption is in the world's highest internet density-country. Even now I'm not certain it will happen. Almost 2023 ffs
 
Capitalism is all for data caps to make you pay for yet higher caps, Capitalism will also fight against this level of tech, cant have consumers happy with their ISPs, long enough until they have abused it in such a way to profit from it.

Capitalism is also why the rat and filth infested NYC subway costs 17x more to run than the whole of Seoul's with much better facilities.
 
You probably meant 1000Mbps? 100Mbps is done over 4 strands of copper nowadays.
I just threw in some very approximate figure. My FTTH connection reaches 180/25 Mbps with the exchange (or whatever it's called) some 20 km away. Most likely it's an all passive network with no amplifiers in between, just splitters.

I'm not familiar with the latest development in copper technology, I still think that 100 Mbps over one kilometre is close to the limit, or over the limit, of any DSL. Am I wrong?
 
I guess the word "internet" is abundant in the title.
 
I just threw in some very approximate figure. My FTTH connection reaches 180/25 Mbps with the exchange (or whatever it's called) some 20 km away. Most likely it's an all passive network with no amplifiers in between, just splitters.

I'm not familiar with the latest development in copper technology, I still think that 100 Mbps over one kilometre is close to the limit, or over the limit, of any DSL. Am I wrong?
I believe pair bonded VDSL can max at 52 if it is placed on top of existing copper infrastructure in homes.
And of course its best-case because distance is a huge factor.
 
There will be no internet with hard disk, SSD maxsimum speed.
Cant even get USB 1-2 port speed.
 
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