IBM scientists have developed a prototype optical chipset, called Holey
Optochip, that is the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one
trillion bits – one terabit – of information per second. So technically
speaking, this is a Tbps transceiver, about 100x faster than today's technology.
For those of us who appreciate the speed in the context of digital download and Big Data, this speed is about the equivalent of downloading 500 high definition movies. The report will occur at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference taking place in Los Angeles, Calif.
For the fun of it, here are some more spec:
The raw speed of one transceiver is equivalent to the bandwidth consumed by 100,000 users at today’s typical 10 Mb/s high-speed internet access.
Or, it would take just around an hour to transfer the entire U.S. Library of Congress web archive through the transceiver.
The transceiver consumes less than 5 watts; the power consumed by a 100W light bulb could power 20 transceivers.
For those of us who appreciate the speed in the context of digital download and Big Data, this speed is about the equivalent of downloading 500 high definition movies. The report will occur at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference taking place in Los Angeles, Calif.
For the fun of it, here are some more spec:
The raw speed of one transceiver is equivalent to the bandwidth consumed by 100,000 users at today’s typical 10 Mb/s high-speed internet access.
Or, it would take just around an hour to transfer the entire U.S. Library of Congress web archive through the transceiver.
The transceiver consumes less than 5 watts; the power consumed by a 100W light bulb could power 20 transceivers.
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