Lightning fast internet could be reality

[YJOB]

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Cisco Says New Router to "Forever Change the Internet": The Question Is 'When?'

Posted Mar 09, 2010 07:44pm EST
by Peter Gorenstein Related: CSCO, T, VZ, S, QQQQ, GOOG, ^IXIC

Editor's note: Cisco made headlines today announcing a next generation router that will revolutionize the internet by increasing downloads to unheard of speeds. The Cisco press release makes the following claims about the CRS-3 router:

It enables the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second; every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously; and every motion picture ever created to be streamed in less than four minutes.

Tech Ticker interviewed Kelly Ahuja, Cisco Senior Vice President and General Manager Service Provider Routing Technology Group about the new product this afternoon. He answered all our questions but one: When will consumers be able to take advantage of this new high speed internet? Perhaps that's because that part of the equation is up to our internet service providers. Until they upgrade it might as well all be a dream.

Below is Kara Swisher's take on the new product.

Provided by All Things D, March 9, 2010:

Cisco today announced a new version of its key routing system, which the networking giant said has a dozen times the traffic capacity of competitors and three times as much as the company’s previous version.

Cisco’s CEO John Chambers said the CRS-3 Carrier Routing System is aimed at the huge growth in video on the Internet, a trend that has also caused slowdowns.

Pankaj Patel, SVP and GM for the service provider business, claimed the system could in just a few minutes deliver all the movies ever made or allow everyone in China to make a video phone call at once.

It had better. The consumption of video online is growing like crazy and a constant bottleneck is likely without some relief.

“Video brings the Internet to life,” said Chambers. “You are moving from a messaging platform to a video platform.”

Along with Chambers and Patel, AT&T (T) Labs CEO and President Keith Cambron was on the call discussing deployment trials the telecom giant has been doing with the CRS-3. CRS-3 (pictured here) will be available within the calendar year, said the Cisco execs on a press and analyst call this morning.

Cisco had said weeks ago that it was making “a significant announcement that will forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments.”

Significant? We’ll see, of course. For sure, it was a highly hyped announcement by Chambers. But due to the speculation about what Cisco was unveiling, its stock hit a 52-week high yesterday. It dropped slightly this morning after the call.

Many others are getting into the high-speed act on the Web. Google (GOOG) said recently that it is planning on building a superfast broadband service. In addition, the Federal Communications Commission is set to unveil its own ambitious plan to improve high-speed Internet access across the United States.

Cisco has gotten deep into the video business of late, both in pushing its networking gear and in acquiring a video device maker like Pure Digital, the company behind my beloved Flip digital camera.
It is also working on innovative holographic and television-based home telepresence technologies.

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[lomotel]

it depends on the local telcos on how much bandwidth they would provide to the consumers

[tokidoki_v2.1]

nagkatawa ko. i thought this was an ad for skycable or something. lol

daghan kaayo sila saad but all our sh*t still bogs down from extensive use. boo!

[pankie101]

ang ako lang is...
mao buh?!

[rodsky]

They have been promising speeds of this magnitude since 2008...

Coming soon: superfast internet - Times Online

Someone even blogged about an article I wrote on the impact of high internet speeds to virtual worlds:
New World Notes: How "The Grid" Will Transform The Grid of Second Life

-RODION

[NASYO]

it's plausible

but, consider data transmission rate.
transfer loss.
dispersion.
for real

as of now, we are communicating more likely in speed of light.
ideally

[floppy]

it can be sooner than we think.

Google is entering the broadband internet industry.
They claim they can offer internet connection of 1 Gbps.

Google Fiber for Communities: Think big with a gig

Using Fiber optic cables can really give internet speed of upto 1 Gbps.
This has already started in japan.

Service Content | FLET'S HIKARI NEXT | FLET'S Official Web Site | NTT EAST

it is really really fast.
it will be heaven for torrent users @__@

[YJOB]

Years ago people were using internet speeds of roughly 11kbps then later on nahimong 24kbps then nag increase until naabot ang dial-up nga 56kbps.

Then nigawas ang 1.2MB speed then 2MB and so on.

So now, do you think this is not possible?
Maybe sa Pilipinas dugay pa, kay awahi man ta pirmi.

[fritzd]

Years ago people were using internet speeds of roughly 11kbps then later on nahimong 24kbps then nag increase until naabot ang dial-up nga 56kbps.

Then nigawas ang 1.2MB speed then 2MB and so on.

So now, do you think this is not possible?
Maybe sa Pilipinas dugay pa, kay awahi man ta pirmi.

In most parts of Japan, Europe and North America, they have this optical fiber to the home package. It gives allows data transfers of up to 80MBps and even more, which is really insanely fast. And they call this as 'COMMON.' I'm studying photonics myself so I should know. But when I saw this, my jaws dropped. hehehehe

I studied one semester last year in a university that is one of the prime contributing research labs of this field. It was quite a good experience. I learned everything there is to know in order to to research in optical fiber communication technology. Micro-Photonic Interconnects - TONA
The department chairman, Prof. Dr. Hugo Thienport is also one of the foremost experts in this field.
>>> Hugo Thienpont
(Check his profile.. It's as insane as 1Gps. hehehe)
He gave us a lot of insight about the optical fiber telecom industry which he has a lot of experience in. I remember clearly that he said that sometimes research in this field can get to way advanced that the people (the world or industry) can not handle it. It has happened before in the 90's. He said that right now, research groups and institutes are concentrating on developments with potential demand in the market.

High-speed internet is very very much possible. But for now, the demand is very low especially in third world countries. Simply because we can not afford it. I have an Indian colleague who was offered a PhD position for research in fiber to the home technology from this the same university. But he didn't take it, he said that it would be useless for him because when he goes back home the demand is almost non-existent and he would have nothing to do for a job. hehe

[NASYO]

one way rate of transmission on fiber optics is more likely equal to speed of light.
but the coding and decoding, digital to analog, analog to digital, it will take time.
but the bandwidth for the speed of light is great.
dha ato advantage
pero sa modal dispersion sa fiber optics mao sad ato disadvantage


nindot gud unta ni.. pero ang pag-splice sa optics gikan sa poste padulong sa balay, it will take time sad.


mas nindot i-explore, data transmission subay/sakay sa transmission line sa NaPoCor..
using 60 Hz as the carrier..


less ra jud maggasto unta..