Fibre Optics are so slow

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Compared to this.

http://www.physorg.com/news116495016.html

This supercontinuum is one of the most exciting areas of applied physics today and the ability to create it easily will have a significant effect on technology.

This includes telecommunications, where optical systems hundreds of times more efficient than existing types will be created because signals can be transmitted and processed at many wavelengths simultaneously.

Supercontinua generated in photonic crystal fibres also help to create optical clocks which are so accurate that they lose or gain only a second every million years. Two physicists based in the US and Germany shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2005 for work in this area.
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Now force them to apply it to the every day market.
 
It's the same speed, higher bandwidth
 
Dan said:
It's the same speed, higher bandwidth
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What I was about to say. It's kind've like dual-core processing. It's not faster, just more efficient.

I was about to shout at your for your thread title :p
 
We don't even have optical fibre lines in the UK. I think. :(
 
Cheomesh said:
Cable Interbutts != Fiber Optic Interbutts.
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I think you'll find it is. Over here it is, anyway. Virgin Media (ex NTL) use fibre optics from the green switch boxes all the way to the exchange. That's the whole point of cable, to save us from interference (light doesn't succumb to interference like puny mortal copper does). It's bottlenecked quite a bit by the fact it has to be converted to coax to go from the switch box to the house, though. I guess a proper fibre optic network would remain optical all the way to the modem.
 
It technically shouldn't be called Cable, but people generally do.
 
Cable isn't fibre. At least in Finland.

In Finland cable internet is the same as cable tv. That is copper wire originally used to send TV now also sends internet. Fibre is something totally different, my girlfriend has fibre, they dug the cable themselfs because it would have been so ****ing expensive otherwise, the cable comes into their house and goes into a box converting it to a normal CAT5E cable which then goes into a router which then feeds the computer and wireless. I've measures speeds up to 100/100 mbps, but from what I've heard it's limited to that speed so as not to overload the "backbone" network in her area. (Since she isn't the only one to have this where she lives, around 100 houses or so do). The telecom company charges normal ADSL price for their connection because they wouldn't build an ADSL central in their area, so they offered fibre instead (cheaper for them).
 
Normally the interchange has fibre optics to a box which then has the copper wiring to your house.
 
Druckles said:
Normally the interchange has fibre optics to a box which then has the copper wiring to your house.
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Well, in this case I can tell you the fibre goes into their house and then to a box, and then to their router.
 
-Psycho- said:
We don't even have optical fibre lines in the UK. I think. :(
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Yes we do only available for Universities and Big companies.


-Soon will arrive at your house in 2011-2015 :upstare:
 
How is this different from Wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM)? I'm currently using SUNET (Swedish University Network) and they got that stuff running 9 month ago.

I guess using this will enable you to use even more frequencies to send data, right?
 
It'll all be holgographic data soon, anyway
 
Data transmitted by the superpositions of quantum particles.
 
I just got fibre optics last month. I have to say, its alot better than the dsl I had before. I remember being really excited about upgrading from dial up... those were the days.
 
You'll be moving onto holographic cables soon, anyway.
 
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