Alcatel Boosts Fiber Speed to 100 Petabits in Lab

Alcatel has announced that it has set an optical transmission record by delivering roughly 400 DVDs worth of data over 7000km in a second. That stupid "I downloaded the internet" shirt may finally be in fashion (probably not).

Alcatel-Lucent today said that scientists at Bell Labs have set an optical transmission record that could deliver data about 10 times faster than current undersea cables, resulting in speeds of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer. A petawhat? This translates to the equivalent of about 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer or sending about 400 DVDs per second over 7,000 kilometers, roughly the distance between Paris and Chicago.

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