Fastest Ever Broadband

Post by **C7Steve** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:16 am

Yes please

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25840502

Steve.

Scuffers · Post by **Scuffers** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 7:31 am

how is backhaul network broadband?

robin · Post by **robin** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:04 am

When everyone in your town has a 100mbit service, your broadband speed is going to be limited by backhaul. Yes, of course this isn't actually an end user product. I am sure Steve's "winky" is meant to imply that he is not actually expecting a Terabit product to be delivered to his house.

Scuffers · Post by **Scuffers** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:16 am

robin wrote:When everyone in your town has a 100mbit service, your broadband speed is going to be limited by backhaul. Yes, of course this isn't actually an end user product. I am sure Steve's "winky" is meant to imply that he is not actually expecting a Terabit product to be delivered to his house.

my point was it's not broadband, and actually has very little to do with it...

what it should be hailed as is a new laser multiplexing technique that is increasing the capacity of a single fibre.

Post by **C7Steve** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:05 am

was because where I stay, it's really slow, that's all.

It's a step in the right direction for everyone, because in this day and age we get frustrated waiting for things. Especially internet access in areas with slow speeds.

I just posted it up because there are a few people on here who seem interested in these things.

Steve.

Scuffers · Post by **Scuffers** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 1:52 pm

C7Steve wrote: was because where I stay, it's really slow, that's all.

It's a step in the right direction for everyone, because in this day and age we get frustrated waiting for things. Especially internet access in areas with slow speeds.

I just posted it up because there are a few people on here who seem interested in these things.

Steve.

don't disagree with the sentiment, but this new tech will have ZERO impact on what speed you get on your home broadband, and never will.

Broadband speeds are not a technical issue so much as a financial one, the tech is already available, just openreach will not pay for it and nobody else has the capability (nationally)

Dark · Post by **Dark** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:06 pm

This could be the first thread I'm actually technically qualified to answer!

As said above, this won't improve anyone's broadband connection speed, that's determined by the equipment deployed in the local exchange (ADSL, FTTC, CATV, etc) and the quality / length of your telephone line. However this will increase capacity on the backhaul network which potentially increases throughput and reduces response time for the end users.

As an example consider the typical response to Speedtest.net or similar. Even though you might have a 20mb broadband connection, your result might only be 10mb. That's not due to your broadband connection, it's due to congestion on the backhaul network ie: the link between the exchange and the internet or the connections between different servers on the internet.

Ultimately this improves the internet experience for users which just encourages more usage and shifts the problem somewhere else. Maybe Sanjoy will tell us about the huge capacity parallel optical arrays they use in the data centres!

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:28 pm

I actually got a pitch today regarding high performance compute grids with the biggest improvement being fibre multiplexing between nodes, storage etc. not iscsi/fcoe etc. 40gb copper is so 2013.

Post by **campbell** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:32 pm

But how many BHP?

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Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 12:14 am

Lights on the front of server boxes are blue now Campbell. Good for +35 Bhp.

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