Sweden breaks the... 45Gbps barrier!

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http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/ wrote:

]Sigbritt, 75, has world's fastest broadband

Published: 12th July 2007 11:07 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/7869/

A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world's fastest internet connection.

Sigbritt Löthberg's home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed.

But Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, is no ordinary 75 year old. She is the mother of Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg who, along with Karlstad Stadsnät, the local council's network arm, has arranged the connection.

"This is more than just a demonstration," said network boss Hafsteinn Jonsson.

"As a network owner we're trying to persuade internet operators to invest in faster connections. And Peter Löthberg wanted to show how you can build a low price, high capacity line over long distances," he told The Local.

Sigbritt will now be able to enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously. Or, if there is nothing worth watching there, she will be able to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds.

The secret behind Sigbritt's ultra-fast connection is a new modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000 kilometres apart, with no intermediary transponders.

According to Karlstad Stadsnät the distance is, in theory, unlimited - there is no data loss as long as the fibre is in place.

"I want to show that there are other methods than the old fashioned ways such as copper wires and radio, which lack the possibilities that fibre has," said Peter Löthberg, who now works at Cisco.

Cisco contributed to the project but the point, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, is that fibre technology makes such high speed connections technically and commercially viable.

"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC," said Jonsson.

That's mind bogglingly fast!

[edit]Doh! The 40gb barrier that should be [/edit]

Anima

"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC," said Jonsson.

Hah

thefinalstage

Woop! I have been waiting for this to happen since those MIT bastardos broke the record.

highlydebased

So wish i had that connection!

johnplayerblue

Fupin hell
"She will be able to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds"

Thrill

Lucky beggers. 40gbps. That is truly unbelievable.

Drool.



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Irish Wolf

Best to get there first and throw up a new sticky for people whinging and moaning about not getting the full 40Gbps..

Might take 10 years before it gets any traffic - but at least it'll be there..








posted using my little 3.6Mbps 3 usb modem - only 11,111.11* times slower!

radiospan

Wow, took me a while to realise this is 45Gbps, not 45Mbps!!

Can hard drives even write data that fast?

bigpaddy2004

I wonder when Eircom will begin to roll out that sort of service. :rolleyes:

Duiske

bigpaddy2004 wrote:

I wonder when Eircom will begin to roll out that sort of service. :rolleyes:

About the same time McDonalds start Tele-porting Big Macs to your home.
Seriously though, that is a wicked speed. Wonder if its actually true ??

Steffano2002

Fibre Optic is the way to go... I wish I had such a connection! But frankly, it will probably not become available here for another 50 years...

Daemonic

plazzTT wrote:

Wow, took me a while to realise this is 45Gbps, not 45Mbps!!

Can hard drives even write data that fast?

No, not even fast ram can write that fast...so a waste really

watty

johnplayerblue wrote:

Fupin hell
"She will be able to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds"

Nope. Because any server will be 100kBytes to 500kBytes per second.

For the next ten years or more this is of more interest for those with their own backhaul fibre (typically 2Gbps today). So it would be needed to allow users to have 5Mbps to 20Mbps at 10:1 contention instead of 1Mbps to 5Mbps at 48:1 contention.

For users to have no Cap, 20Mbps and running p2p/Joost/IPTV 24/7 you need nearly 1000Gbps on all the backhaul.

gerky

Messed up I get it hard to break the 40Kbps barrier:(

Jesus Wept

What a waste, I bet she has no interest in dvds, or porn for that matter.

You don't need the fastest internet connection in the world to download sudoku puzzles.

ethernet

That speed is fine if you're sharing with a lot of people or if the connection on the other end will give you some speed close to 45 Gbps, which is rather unlikely at this moment in time. How many servers have a 45 Gbps connection, let alone offer speeds to client anywhere near that speed?

Really, I'm not jealous of that granny

Alun

I spent a week in January in Lapland up near the Arctic Circle in Sweden, literally in the middle of nowhere, and all the houses in the local 'village' (4 houses!) had Internet access via a 100Mbit/s fiber optic connection to each house

Steffano2002

Alun wrote:

I spent a week in January in Lapland up near the Arctic Circle in Sweden, literally in the middle of nowhere, and all the houses in the local 'village' (4 houses!) had Internet access via a 100Mbit/s fiber optic connection to each house

That's crazy! Here you can barely get crappy ADSL in the capital city! :mad:

fatherdougalmag

I guess the telco is waiting for her to go over her 10GB cap and then start hammering her with additional charges

Downloading all those Ďanieļ O'Doňel albums and epsiodes of Fąir Čity. With a bit of granny pr0n on the side. You'd eat up 10GB in no time

zAbbo

Try writing 40Gps to a hard drive.

zzzz press release.

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zabbo wrote:

Try writing 40Gps to a hard drive.

zzzz press release.

It mightn't be able to be done now, but that's no reason why they shouldn't be constantly exploring new tranmission technologies to prepare for the future and to reduce present day running costs.

slemons

this is bullsh1t really. its only a point to point connection. whatever she wants to view that is not directly on that connection will be limited by the upload speed on the other side, which will almost definitely less than 1MBps

AlmightyCushion

Does any one know if she is renting and if so when is her lease up?

JNive

of course its point to point, just like everything. THe point of it was to showcase a high-capacity LINK across long distances, exactly what it says on the tin. Where did they mention she could download at that speed on the existing internet lol.