Week 3 Posting - The Future of SPEED

Hello everyone, and welcome to week 3! This week I'm going to talk about something that doesn't even exist yet, Terabit Ethernet.

Like this, but faster. Source

In 2001(!) 6.4 Terabit per second speeds were demonstrated in laboratory settings. That's 800 Gigabytes per second. So it kind of exists, but not at speeds of 1 Terabit per second. Not even close. Current physical layer technology can't reliably produce that kind of transfer speed, and from what I've found on a strangely quiet internet on the subject, current technology for even 100 Gigabit per second transfers exists only in optical connections, and we are very close already to the limits of that. so, in the (semi)near future we will most likely be saying goodbye to our beloved RJ-45 connector, and most of our current fiber-optic cable as well.

At least someone's happy about it.

The IEEE is on top of it though, and is in the process of developing standards for fiber optic cable that can handle these speeds, though again, I couldn't find any thing since 2012 on the subject.
All in all this is pretty exciting, even if we have to wait for an indefinite period of time. Before we know it, the world will be sending and receiving data at amazing speeds, and we'll be there to make it happen.
Like I said, current information on this topic was not really easy to find. Did I miss some things? Do you know were to find substantial updates on 1TbE? Let me know in the comments or on the student discussion board. See you next week!