You heard that right. One cable to speed along your data at the unfathomable speed of 8 Gbps. More than 8000 Mbps. To give you an idea of the scale, most households have broadband speeds of around 4 Mbps. Yeah this is THAT fast.
Data would be transferred around so fast that most files would be sent even before you lift off your finger from the mouse. This is groundbreaking.
This is made possible by Intel’s Silicon Photonics technology. It has got 64 fibers, 32 for transmitting and 32 for receiving and each one as got a bandwidth of 25 Gbps. Calculate that and you see it carrying around data at 800 Gbps on both ends. Aggregate out the sending and receiving and you get a bandwidth aggregate of 1.6 Tbps. Chew on that.
Current ethernet cables only offer a bandwidth of 10 Gbps which seems puny in comparison to THIS behemoth.
At the end are the MXC (No full form) connectors for well connecting them.
The higher bandwidth would enable better and faster (REAL faster) communication for data centres and also supercomputers, where everything counts.
These will be in production by Q3 2014. Intel has partnered up with Corning to manufacture cables for Silicon Photonics technology
You can actually feel yourselves being blown away by it’s speed. Then it is too bad that it is only for data centres and supercomputers. For NOW, a man can dream, you know.
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