peter lothberg's mother slashdotted

Thu Jul 12 23:51:49 UTC 2007

On Jul 12, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Robert Blayzor wrote:

>
> Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>> I have to disagree, considering the amount of people I've had to
>> convice that this really is a single 50GHz wave using 40G per
>> second over DWDM system designed for 10G and that it was router
>> "LC - optical amplification - LC"
>
>
> Well yes, the technology is quite cool, I'm not debating that.  The
> fact that it works at his mothers house (residential) doesn't
> really have any significance.  I don't think you have anyone out
> there debating against caping out the upper limits of bandwidth on
> what we can get over a single strand of glass.
>
> I look at this article and say "so what".  Now you've gotten the
> packets to the house.  Now what?  Wait 10, 15 or 20 years while
> companies try to find ways to get content do you?  1500 HD
> channels, thats a lot of TV sets.  You can have all the bandwidth
> you want, but but until there an actual use for 40Gbps at the home
> all you're going to have is the worlds fastest BitTorrent or on net
> porn PPV network.

Uncompressed HD TV (typically 1.54 Gbps / channel) comes to mind, for
which there are applications, albeit typically not residential so far.

See, e.g.,

http://www.gloriad-kr.org/hdtv/
http://ultragrid.east.isi.edu/2005-02-APAN.pdf

Regards
Marshall

>
> How practical is it really also that you need CRS-1 at the
> residence for this.  I agree with Sean.  Since for most people the
> line card alone costs more than the house. :-)
>
> -Robert