'Fastest ever' broadband speeds achieved in fibre test

[webfact]

'Fastest ever' broadband speeds achieved in fibre test
James W. Manning

LONDON: -- The "fastest ever" broadband speeds have been achieved in a test that hit 1.4 terabits per second – enough to transmit 44 high-definition movies in just one second.

British Telecom (BT) and French networking equipment company Alcatel-Lucent conducted the test on the existing fibre network in London, with the hope of maximising the efficiency of the current infrastructure and avoiding costly upgrades.

"It's a reaction to the growth in demand for video content," Foad Fadaghi, managing director of technology analyst firm Telsyte, told Fairfax Media. "It's about reducing the cost of carrying vast amounts of data over the coming years."

Chief executive of broadband analyst firm Point Topic, Oliver Johnson, agreed, telling the BBC: "BT and Alcatel-Lucent are making more from what they've got ... It allows them to increase their capacity without having to spend much more money."

Researchers used what is known as "flexigrid" infrastructure, creating an "alien super channel" made up of seven 200 gigabits per second (Gbps) channels. These channels – the paths that data travel between two nodes on a network – were combined to give a total capacity of 1.4 terabits per second.

The gaps between these transmission channels were reduced, thereby increasing the channels' density, resulting in a 42.5 per cent increase in the efficiency of data transmission compared to current standard networks.

Full story: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/fastest-ever-broadband-speeds-achieved-in-fibre-test-20140123-hv9lf.html

-- The Sydney Morning Herald 2014-01-23

[tominbkk]

wow, that's crazy fast!

[Crossy]

I want it NOW!

My mind was blown by the measured 100Mbps I was getting from a hotel room in Seoul, and it was free.

Meanwhile my parents in Bexhill are struggling with a less-than-reliable BT connection at 10Mbps.

[laurentbkk]

it will be available in Thailand in about 145 years most probably .

[taony]

My building here in Bangkok was opened 3 or so years ago. I only have access to DSL!!

[pedro01]

Should reach Thailand within the next couple of weeks then

[ultimate weapon]

I want it NOW!

My mind was blown by the measured 100Mbps I was getting from a hotel room in Seoul, and it was free.

Meanwhile my parents in Bexhill are struggling with a less-than-reliable BT connection at 10Mbps.

My own home connection is faster than that but imagine what the households speeds must be like.

[Kerryd]

Thailand will wait until this technology is outdated and obsolete, it will then start offering it to users at a highly inflated price and will not deliver 1/10th of the expected speeds.

5 years later you may get 1/2 the expected speed, and a lower cost, and hear about the latest, greatest new tech that has already surpassed the tech that surpassed what you have.

[HooHaa]

not so sure about that, i get 30-50 mbps here in Bangkok, faster than most everyone i know regardless of location. Speeds like that would only serve to bury most peoples disks anyways.

i may be wrong, but can ssd even write that fast?

Edited January 23, 2014 by HooHaa

[seancbk]

Hong Kong still has the fastest internet speeds.

Average is 63.6 Mbps

I had 100 Mbps up and down when I was there and shortly after I moved here they began offering 1000 Mbps up and down.

http://royal.pingdom.com/2013/07/23/internet-speed-hong-kong/

I really miss having those speeds :-(

[Chicog]

One of our local providers wants US$600+ p.m. for unlimited 4G.

Edited January 23, 2014 by Chicog

[tx22cb]

I can see it now - Thailand ISPs indeed offer 1.4 Tbps ..... but the international gateways remain unchanged

[oztaurus]

Oh the irony of this being reported in the SMH, where the country is expected to get 100Mbps in 10 years time due to the NBN rollout (if that ever gets untangled), when 1Gbps is beginning to roll out in the US and, as others have stated, places like Hong Kong and Korea are already getting 60 - 100Mbps. I was lucky to get 2Mbs in Australia 7 months ago for $70/month access - not enough to stream YouTube or TED videos full screen, and often not enough for the small sized player. At least in Huahin i can watch streamed videos for less than $20/month internet access.

[tingtongteesood]

There comes a certain point where it is just unnecessary and pointless, that is well beyond the point......

[Chicog]

Not for backbones it isn't.

[britmaveric]

all the infrastructure would have to be update down to the nic card in your pc. (1TB cards anyone???)

[Pattel]

Oh the irony of this being reported in the SMH, where the country is expected to get 100Mbps in 10 years time due to the NBN rollout (if that ever gets untangled), when 1Gbps is beginning to roll out in the US and, as others have stated, places like Hong Kong and Korea are already getting 60 - 100Mbps. I was lucky to get 2Mbs in Australia 7 months ago for $70/month access - not enough to stream YouTube or TED videos full screen, and often not enough for the small sized player. At least in Huahin i can watch streamed videos for less than $20/month internet access.

korea has just tested a 5g system that it thinks in can have fully operational in 5 or 6 years.

[ultimate weapon]

not so sure about that, i get 30-50 mbps here in Bangkok, faster than most everyone i know regardless of location. Speeds like that would only serve to bury most peoples disks anyways.

i may be wrong, but can ssd even write that fast?

Check out my speed here it doesn't bury my ssd and this is the average speed

[Pib]

it will be available in Thailand in about 145 years most probably .

About the same time 4G will become available throughout Thailand.

[SailingHome]

it will be available in Thailand in about 145 years most probably .

About the same time 4G will become available throughout Thailand.

Ah, and you still cand 'use' it, as once you pass a small GB usage, you drop to EDGE. What is the point of paying B1k or so for quickly downloading one good movie from your cloud drive?

[falangadang]

wow, that's crazy fast!

Coming soon to Thailand?

[tx22cb]

not so sure about that, i get 30-50 mbps here in Bangkok, faster than most everyone i know regardless of location. Speeds like that would only serve to bury most peoples disks anyways.

i may be wrong, but can ssd even write that fast?

Check out my speed here it doesn't bury my ssd and this is the average speed

I have Load envy ....

I assume you did this whilst in SGP. Interesting that Starhub's U/load speed is 70% of the D/Load speed.

What's your D/load speed when connected to (say) a US host server from SGP?

[belg]

available in thailand in 2095

[Pib]

not so sure about that, i get 30-50 mbps here in Bangkok, faster than most everyone i know regardless of location. Speeds like that would only serve to bury most peoples disks anyways.

i may be wrong, but can ssd even write that fast?

Check out my speed here it doesn't bury my ssd and this is the average speed

I have Load envy ....

I assume you did this whilst in SGP. Interesting that Starhub's U/load speed is 70% of the D/Load speed.

What's your D/load speed when connected to (say) a US host server from SGP?

Probably the same speed since the easily fooled (by local cache servers) Flash/Ookla-based speed tester Speedtest.net is being used. While Speedtest.net is fine/accurate for local testing, it can be easily fooled in testing to international/distant servers.

Edited January 23, 2014 by Pib

[Chicog]

http://m.androidcentral.com/korean-carrier-launch-insanely-fast-225mbps-lte-network-2014-out

Sent from my GT-I9505 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

[NeverSure]

not so sure about that, i get 30-50 mbps here in Bangkok, faster than most everyone i know regardless of location. Speeds like that would only serve to bury most peoples disks anyways.

i may be wrong, but can ssd even write that fast?

Check out my speed here it doesn't bury my ssd and this is the average speed

That is mega bits per second, or 1/8 MBps (mega bytes per second.) There are 8 bits in a byte, so you are getting 19+ MBps. Not bad at all, really

I just upgraded to 60 MBps from 30 and I think it was a mistake for the money. Many servers including Microsoft with updates throttle you down to a max download speed and I can test 60 - 65 MBps, but it takes me several seconds to download most 60 MB files - about the same as when I had 30.

Every once in while I find an unthrottled server and shabaam -

[laobali]

High speeds between you and your local provider are great, but what happens upstream? What do you get from the US where most servers are based?

[ultimate weapon]

not so sure about that, i get 30-50 mbps here in Bangkok, faster than most everyone i know regardless of location. Speeds like that would only serve to bury most peoples disks anyways.

i may be wrong, but can ssd even write that fast?

Check out my speed here it doesn't bury my ssd and this is the average speed

That is mega bits per second, or 1/8 MBps (mega bytes per second.) There are 8 bits in a byte, so you are getting 19+ MBps. Not bad at all, really

I just upgraded to 60 MBps from 30 and I think it was a mistake for the money. Many servers including Microsoft with updates throttle you down to a max download speed and I can test 60 - 65 MBps, but it takes me several seconds to download most 60 MB files - about the same as when I had 30.

Every once in while I find an unthrottled server and shabaam -

Yup that's right when i download from youtube i get around 20MBps which is very fast especially for HD videos.

[HooHaa]

not so sure about that, i get 30-50 mbps here in Bangkok, faster than most everyone i know regardless of location. Speeds like that would only serve to bury most peoples disks anyways.

i may be wrong, but can ssd even write that fast?

Check out my speed here it doesn't bury my ssd and this is the average speed

yes,but that is a far cry from 1.4 tb/sec ith the op which i was referring to, albeit unclearly.

Also as has been pointed out, you would need on hell of an NIC

Edited January 24, 2014 by HooHaa

[BradWalker]

Here in Amazing Kedon Village, I post this through my 2G aircard. It blazes away at around 50-100 K BYTES per second!!! 3G was supposed to get here a year ago; AIS I am still waiting!!!!!