Wired: The Shadow Internet That’s 100 Times Faster Than Google Fiber

[LiteCoinGuy]

The Shadow Internet That’s 100 Times Faster Than Google Fiber

When Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette said the tech giant might bring 10 gigabits per second internet connections to American homes, it seemed like science fiction. That’s about 1,000 times faster than today’s home connections. But for NASA, it’s downright slow.

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/esnet/

[pepericau]

Really good news for the community will be really awesome to have that speed connection, 10 GB/per second is a huge speed, is revolucionary, downloading huge files within a few seconds, but if is a  NASA project it will be for a long time just for their use.

[Parazyd]

I'd be satisfied with 100Mbit at home

This is really unnecessary for an ordinary computer user. Even for torrenting.

[trand]

for home internet 91 Gb/s is to much
i use 10Mb/s and it also does not know to use much less

[Nik1ab]

Before they start supplying insanely high bandwidths to some stupid cities they should start with supplying acceptable bandwidths to countryside areas.

[feinter]

That's insanely quick, can still remeber the dial-up days when a 1mb download would take about 6 hours.

[sifter]

nice to have but not really necessary

[AnimeBoy_007]

Sony Internet in japan has 2Gbps fiber optics to homes. For now it's the world's fastest internet.

[Parazyd]

That's insanely quick, can still remeber the dial-up days when a 1mb download would take about 6 hours.

How I'm glad that's over. That and ISDN. It was freaking expensive. How much did you pay for it,  if you remember?

[umair127]

The Shadow Internet That’s 100 Times Faster Than Google Fiber

When Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette said the tech giant might bring 10 gigabits per second internet connections to American homes, it seemed like science fiction. That’s about 1,000 times faster than today’s home connections. But for NASA, it’s downright slow.

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/esnet/

I really like the idea of calling it a "Shadow Internet" because it's got that whole sneaky-sly underground internet feeling. Like it's a series of tubes filled with ninja cats in spandex-y outfits with those cylinder tube things like the guy from the show Kung Fu The Legend Continues carried around instead of the Internet the rest of us use with is a series of tubes filled with normal cats wearing postal carrier hats that wave to each other as they scurry around carrying data packets in little mail bags over their backs.

[sana8410]

The 100gbps speeds over a single link are impressive. Especially when they are stating it's throughput over a long distance. It would be interesting to see what the actual amount of transfer a site could do. Denver technically has 400gbps of throughput since it has 100G connections to 4 locations. And there is most likely a backup feed for each of these sites for failover. Plus they probably still have some redundant 10gbps links as backups. Meaning that Denver really could have up to say 1tbps of bandwidth if everything was turned up at the same time. Chicago is already capable of moving 1tbps and no doubt could be moving much more if it had to.

[MICRO]

I'd be satisfied with 100Mbit at home

This is really unnecessary for an ordinary computer user. Even for torrenting.

Im at 10 mb/s atm . And im quite happy with it. Why in hell i would need this ?

[Rigon]

This isn't all that revolutionary. A lot of companies use a technology called Dense Wave Division Multiplexing to allow multiple wavelengths of light down the same stand of fiber. With current technology you can easily (pretty expensively though) get 40 10 gigabit channels down a single fiber. A lot of large companies use this technology for data center and large office interconnects.

[beetcoin]

i don't know why everyone needs that much speed, but hey why not? i'm happy if i have a 20 MBPS stable connection.

[bluefirecorp]

91 gigabit? Meh.

400 gigabit ethernet is coming pretty soon for major carrier's backbones.

Remember, it's not always about bandwidth, sometimes it's about latency. When you say "faster", I'm assuming a lower latency, which can make sense as they pretty have less hops between end-points. But backbones are really close to the physical limitations of latency (a few ms for cross-country communications in the the USA really comes close to actually going at the speed of light).

[Justin00]

as above poster said.. backbone capacity.
dunno wht you mean about 400gig ??
there are now cisco routers with 64x 100gig ports my friend =) thats a shitload more than 400gig.


here in Aus they are trying to roll out 100mb fibre.
total crap I say.
what the hell do you need to download.. no wait... what the hell can you download at 100mbit/s besides torrents or from mirror sites which usually hang off ISP's.

and 10gig.. or even 1gig.. jesus...

and yeah yeah people will say streaming video...

whatever.. I suspect actual network engineers and peopel who understand backbone capacity like posted above relise this stuff is just stupid.

[bluefirecorp]

as above poster said.. backbone capacity.
dunno wht you mean about 400gig ??
there are now cisco routers with 64x 100gig ports my friend =) thats a shitload more than 400gig.


here in Aus they are trying to roll out 100mb fibre.
total crap I say.
what the hell do you need to download.. no wait... what the hell can you download at 100mbit/s besides torrents or from mirror sites which usually hang off ISP's.

and 10gig.. or even 1gig.. jesus...

and yeah yeah people will say streaming video...

whatever.. I suspect actual network engineers and peopel who understand backbone capacity like posted above relise this stuff is just stupid.

Link aggregation adds overhead. Link to that Cisco kit? I'm actually quite curious -- I haven't seen any routers perform like that in a long time. Even the Nexus series of Cisco.

Also, once you place the infrastructure -- things are created around the infrastructure. For example; once you have gigabit to home via fiber with super low latency, you can stream video games easily. VDI becomes possible, and it really opens the doors to an infinite amount of computing possibilities.

[Justin00]

checkout Cisco NCS-6000 series.. specifically ncs-6008

brand brand new routers.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/optical-networking/ons-15454-series-multiservice-provisioning-platforms/data_sheet_c78-728048.html

actually not sure about the 64 (might be 60) x 100 but they are def coming in a year or 2..
40x 100g available now though i believe...

only being used to 1-3 telco's at the moment.

PM me if you want secret info I may or may not tell you (seriously... depending on who you are... no offence lol)

[bluefirecorp]

checkout Cisco NCS-6000 series.. specifically ncs-6008

brand brand new routers.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/optical-networking/ons-15454-series-multiservice-provisioning-platforms/data_sheet_c78-728048.html

actually not sure about the 64 (might be 60) x 100 but they are def coming in a year or 2..
40x 100g available now though i believe...

only being used to 1-3 telco's at the moment.

PM me if you want secret info I may or may not tell you (seriously... depending on who you are... no offence lol)

Very neat. Thanks for the info. I didn't think Cisco kit was that far along, but wow. Very, very neat.

[Justin00]

it is indeed
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