Tiger
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The "fastest ever" broadband speeds have been achieved in a test in London, raising hopes of more efficient data transfer via existing infrastructure.
Alcatel-Lucent and BT said speeds of 1.4 terabits per second were achieved during their joint test - enough to send 44 uncompressed HD films a second.
The test was conducted on a 410km (255-mile) link between the BT Tower in central London and Ipswich.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25840502
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Wrighty
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Crikey.
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Chrissy
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This would be awesome for downloading.. Just a shame my hard disc only writes at around 200MB/s..
>>>> Chris <<<<
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Cavey
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That's fantastic. Maybe once that rolled out I might be able to get over 2mb on my estate 
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Sunz
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Some amazing speeds there but the Uk still seems quite far behind when it comes to internet speeds but it seems pretty cheap here in comparison. I see they have Google fiber in 3 states in the USA which is about 0.9 terabits up and down.
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Dom
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Not sure why BBC mentioned broadband as it has little to do with providing internet connections to end-users. Rather this is a technical exercise between BT and Alcatel-Lucent into increasing optical density which could potentially help out with backhaul capacity in the future.
And anyway, the speed isn't particularly exciting - multiple Tb/s links can already be done, plus the Emerald Express transalantic link (between Dublin and NY) currently being built will do 40Tb/s 
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Originally posted by Sunz
I see they have Google fiber in 3 states in the USA which is about 0.9 terabits up and down.
Google Fibre coverage is pretty minute (it's not entire states for starters), which is no different to providers like Hyperoptic over here who offer domestic (FFTH) 1Gb connections to limited areas.
[Edited on 23-01-2014 by Dom]
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Tiger
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How has this had so many views 
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Dom
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Originally posted by Tiger
How has this had so many views
Traffic via search engines i imagine.
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