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[Slender Mang]

Sweden: 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg from Karlstad, who has never used a computer before, now has what is currently believed to be the fastest residential broadband in the world.

Her 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection is capable of downloading a HD-DVD film in two seconds. The connection was set up by her son, Peter Lothberg from Cisco, as a demonstration of a new router system.

According to Peter the new system will allow data transfer between routers without transponders over a range of 1,240 miles. The company "wanted to show that that there are no limitations to Internet speed."


http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007967233

It's a pretty old article, but 40 Gigs per second?! Thats ridiculous.

[I_Am]

40gb/s is not that fast.

OC-768 / STM-256x

OC-768 is a network line with transmission speeds of up to 39,813.12 Mbit/s (payload: 38,486.016 Mbit/s; overhead: 1327.104 Mbit/s).

OC-768 SONET interfaces have been available with short-reach optical interfaces from Cisco since as early as 2006. As of September 2007, Cisco will use OC-768 DWDM line cards from a third party. These line cards will plug into the Cisco chassis. These same line cards will also be made available to Siemens. These cards will use four Xilinx FPGA, a Power PC, a TI c6200 DSP, Four AMCC FEC, two DeMux and two Mux.

Infinera made a field trial demonstration data transmission on a live production network involving the service transmission of a 40Gb/s OC-768/STM-256 service over a 1,969 km terrestrial network spanning Europe and the U.S.

Though unused the standards go as high as 160gb/s

OC-3072

Will be able to provide transmission speeds of around 159.25248 Gbit/s

Also note a 40gb/s connections is only 2.5GB/s which means a 80GB HD-DVD would take 32 Seconds. thus no where near the claimed 2 seconds.

[Sir Modsalot]

Also note a 40gb/s connections is only 2.5GB/s which means a 80GB HD-DVD would take 32 Seconds. thus no where near the claimed 2 seconds.

That is a wierd oversight... wonder if they meant to say standard definition?

This post has been edited by Sir Modsalot: Nov 25 2007, 09:39 PM