Researchers have used alien technology to demo a broadband technology that can hit 1.4 terabits per second. That is enough to send 44 high-definition movies in just one second over the existing fiber network in London according to TechEye. A team from BT (BT) and Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) developed new infrastructure.
The BBC explained that the researchers used a new “flexigrid” infrastructure. Flexigrid created an “alien super channel.” The alien super channel was made of seven 200 Gbps channels, to vary the gaps between transmission channels. Increasing the channels’ density resulted in a 42.5% increase in the efficiency of data transmission compared with current networks.
Like adding more lanes of traffic
Kevin Drury, optical marketing leader at AlcaLu, told BBC news that the test was aimed at reducing space between lanes on a busy highway. He claims it is like adding more lanes of traffic to flow through the same path. He said that while wide lines can encompass heavy data transfers such as streaming video, narrow lanes would be assigned for low-data transfers such as standard web pages.
The test was conducted on a 255-mile (410km) fiber link between the BT Tower in central London and BT’s Adastral Park research center in Suffolk. BT thinks it could help it to meet consumer and business demand for increased bandwidth.
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Unfortunately, the mega-speed BT’s aliens developed is all backbone and core network stuff. It will not change the speeds we the people will get at home.
Am I the only one that has noticed that none of the new broadband speed records do not happen in the U.S.? The power of monopoly.
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