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Distances though? I've seen similar breakthroughs in the past but it was only good for networking within the same room.
It's optical fiber so it's good for miles. Unlikely to be at home for decades but telcos will use it for connecting networks.
Optical fiber is already 100 gigabit so the article comparing it to your home connection is stupid.
So the scientist improved current fiber speed by 10x, not 1.2 million X.
Its not stupid at all. "Broadband" speed is a term that laypeople across the country can at least conceptualize. Articles like this aren't necessarily written exclusively for industry folks. If the population can't relate to the information well, how can they hope to pressure telcos for better services?
So it's fine if an article says Space X develops a new rocket that travels 100x faster than a car?
Because that implies a breakthrough when it's actually not significantly faster than other rockets: it's the speed needed to reach the ISS.
10X faster than existing fiber would be accurate reporting. Especially given that there are labs that have transmitted at peta bit speeds over optical already. So terabit isn't significant, only his method.
Those are two completely unrelated things.
Then give me a related analogy you would accept and I'll easily twist it into a misleading comparison exactly the article did.
How about this, "British Telecom develops high speed internet 1700x faster than previous Internet service technology. Availability is today!"
The above statement is completely true.
Comparing to home Internet when it isn't home Internet technology is misleading. Ignoring that there are already faster optical Internet speeds in other labs around the world is misleading.
“A bus on average can hold ten times as many passengers as private vehicles.”
Except that isn’t the case here. It’s completely different technology that transfers the data. So it’s comparing a train to a car.
The vast majority of consumers don’t understand the technology being used at any point in worldwide infrastructure, many times including the tech in their own home.
Okay.