43Tbps over a single fiber: World’s fastest network

[Maestro]

43Tbps over a single fiber: World’s fastest network would let you download a movie in 0.2 milliseconds

By Sebastian Anthony on July 31, 2014 at 8:49 am

 

A research group at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), which was the first to break the one-terabit barrier in 2009, has today managed to squeeze 43 terabits per second over a single optical fiber with just one laser transmitter. In a more user-friendly unit, 43Tbps is equivalent to a transfer rate of around 5.4 terabytes per second — or 5,375 gigabytes to be exact. Yes, if you had your hands on DTU’s new fiber-optic network, you could transfer the entire contents of your 1TB hard drive in a fifth of a second — or, to put it another way, a 1GB DVD rip in 0.2 milliseconds.

 

Read more: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/187258-43tbps-over-a-single-fiber-worlds-fastest-network-would-let-you-download-a-movie-in-0-2-milliseconds

[Pib]

Thai ISPs would still throttle the international speed to just a couple MBs.

[KhunBENQ]

Thai ISPs would still throttle the international speed to just a couple MBs.

Still the international connections are a joke.

Some cables in the 2 Tbps range.

http://www.cablemap.info/

 

A relevant relief could come from a planned 24 Tbps cable in 2016 with a landing point in Satun.

SEA-ME-WE-5: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/press/2014/alcatel-lucent-and-sea-me-we-5-consortium-strengthen-ultra-broadband-undersea-connectivity-between

 

Screenshot (the white one):

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Edited August 4, 2014 by KhunBENQ

[muratremix]

Satun could give very low pings to France when it is operational. Even better pings for people live in Southern Thailand (Phuket, Samui etc)

However, it doesn't matter how big your pipe is, you still pay by the meter and Thai ISPs are too cheap charlie to buy extra International Bandwidth.

Thai users only interested in local thai websites and youtube / facebook / google which has direct peering with Thailand, so why they would spend more money for bunch of unsatisfied farangs eh?

 

I talked to He.net regarding the issue. Hopefully they'll consider Thailand when they decide to expand their network in future. They also sell $3 / mbps for up to 1000Mbit in singapore IP transit and $2 / mbps for 10 gigabit ethernet which is pretty cheap considering it is in Singapore (They can buy to their Singapore node easily)

If only True / Cat buys a few gigabit (or 10) he.net in Singapore, I'm sure we'll all be happy with the results.