Dispersion compensation and FEC are separate layers of the cake, and work hand in hand.
blarth
joined 8 months ago
It’s much more than just 100Gb/s.
A single fiber can carry over 90 channels of 400G each. The public is mislead by articles like this. It’s like saying that scientists have figured out how to deliver the power of the sun, but that technology would be reserved for the power company’s generation facilities, not your house.
We already have transceivers that perform forward error correction. That technology is a decade+ old.
Why are we so dumb? Just put a large rolling cover over solar fields. Truck beds have this “technology”.
Luckily, no one is buying 5G slices.
I’d pair this image with Harvest Moon by Neil Young.
I am specifically not on world because they want me to sign up with my real email address. Nty, deanonymizing fucks.
What I’m worried about is Apple overreacting and bottlenecking my M3 pro because “security”. We already saw how fixes for these types of vulnerabilities on Intel and AMD silicon affected performance; no thank you.
Of course they did. It’s why I’m here. They’ve entirely enshittened Reddit. Good riddance, and enjoy watching Reddit burn from a distance on your mountain of cash, spez. Fuck you.
It will be enforced through the app stores, I imagine. You raise a good point, though, that people will still be able to access TikTok through mobile web.