[IMG]http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u139/gtroyal/iStock_000003827869XSmall.jpg[/IMG] The next time you feel your ATT broadband links feels like someone stepped on the garden hose, you will be pleased to know that they have just upgraded their coast to coast backbone to OC 768:
The new-generation backbone network carries data at 40 Gbps without the need for multiplexing (combining multiple digital signals into a single optical channel). AT&T has deployed 40 Gbps (or OC-768) technology on more than 50,000 wavelength miles of its U.S. IP/MPLS backbone network to date, connecting major U.S. cities with the fastest available transport technology. This includes 18,000 miles of recently enhanced optical ultralong haul routes capable of eventually carrying customer voice and data traffic at speeds up to 100 Gbps with minimized latency (packet travel time). By year’s end, more than 40 percent of the IP traffic carried over the company’s backbone network will ride on this new-generation platform.
This new IP goodness should translate into faster and cheaper packet stuff to download your torrent and Kazaa files…just kidding…. On a related note, Singapore has just opened bidding on a new broadband infrastructure. They want by 2012 to have 50% of the homes wired for…get this….1GB data rates:
Singapore’s Next Generation National Broadband Network, which was thrown open on Tuesday. Ultra-high speed of up to 1 gigabit per second – or 10 times faster than the maximum speed currently available on broadband.
We can only dream……
