Japan's NTT claims it's built 1.2Tbit/s optical comms that sip power

Japan's NTT Corporation claims it has developed technologies that allow data transmission at 1.2Tbit/s per wavelength in an optical system. As today's commercial kit delivers 100Gbit/s per wavelength, this is quite a breakthrough. But wait, there's more: NTT reckons its tech reduces power consumption to less than 10 percent …

[Dr_N]

Progress

This will speed up fax transmission rates for sure!

[Def]

Re: Progress

Fax transmission rates are measured in kilobits per second. You'd need a rack of ~30 million fax machines to max out a 1.2Tb/s connection.

[Dr_N]

Re: Progress

I guess I should have used a Joke Alert instead of Troll Face. My bad.

[TJ1]

Scpetical? No way! 1000km!?

I was expecting there to be a catch in all this since NTT doesn't mention the ACTUAL distance record they broke, but after a bit of ducking (DDG) I find that the the distance record for 800Gbps was 970km in September 2020 [0] and that has probably been surpassed since, so this new technology from NTT is definitely a significant advance - especially as it seems to be out of the R&D stage and looking for scaling into production.

[0] https://opticalconnectionsnews.com/2020/09/ciena-breaks-800g-distance-record/

[ecofeco]

That's impressive!

See title.

[Denarius]

wow

more advanced real time tracking and monitoring with faster phishing distribution. Might even make streaming reliable at peak times. Sounds too good to be true.