One second for 720 DVDs: New super-fast fiber optic cable

[anon]

KDDI R&D Laboratories, research arm of KDDI (a Japanese telcom) and Japan's National Institute of Information & Communications Technology (NICT) yesterday announced [JP, PDF] the development of the world's most advanced fiber optic cable.

The companies claim their new cable is able to transmit data around 10 times faster than existing cables (30 terabits per second vs. around 3). In other words, 720 DVDs with two hours of video can be handled within a single second.

One second for 720 DVDs: New super-fast fiber optic cable

[Hellboy]

omg ....this is really fast,but it will be very costly

[SBfreak]

This means you'll get a speed like 50Mb/s download?

[anonftw]

Nice. I'm moving to Japan when I win the lottery! I'll still keep my SB-I account of course.

Of course, I could probably still get those speeds with ratiomaster and stay here.

[Empoleon]

I give it 10 years before it becomes commercial.

[shoulder]

This means you'll get a speed like 50Mb/s download?

Rather 3750GB/s I think.

[suroyo]

Damn it Japan, always showing off your superior internets.

[3D-Man]

But no HDDs can write this fast, right?

[anon]

But no HDDs can write this fast, right?

Just wait until they invent one that can...

[naughtydog]

I am now having a hard time keeping up with all these innovations. Perfect stuff.

I give it 10 years before it becomes commercial.

Consider the billing and you will see never for home users. Well not for the extremely rich folks.

[alpacino]

Wow, imagine that.. a Hard Drive which can't keep up with the internet speed. Not even SSDs can do that afaik.

[anon]

Wow, imagine that.. a Hard Drive which can't keep up with the internet speed.

Those already exist if you have a dedicated 1Gbit seedbox. I think you can alleviate that with some RAID config, though. Anyway, it's very hard to find a "50MB/s torrent"...