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New in the field fibre optic speed of 1.4 terabits
« on: 22 January 2014, 17:29:52 »
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Re: New in the field fibre optic speed of 1.4 terabits
« Reply #1 on: 22 January 2014, 18:17:47 »
Good ol' beeb. Must be slow news day. I'm sure I posted the results of the tests several months ago ;D
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Re: New in the field fibre optic speed of 1.4 terabits
« Reply #2 on: 22 January 2014, 18:47:39 »
Received an email from Virgin this week, saying we would receive a free 50mb speed increase in due course. Probably in June ish.

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I'm sure prices will increase soon after though. So it won't be free, I know. ::)
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Re: New in the field fibre optic speed of 1.4 terabits
« Reply #3 on: 22 January 2014, 18:54:04 »
Quote from: chrisgixer on 22 January 2014, 18:47:39
Received an email from Virgin this week, saying we would receive a free 50mb speed increase in due course. Probably in June ish.

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I'm sure prices will increase soon after though. So it won't be free, I know. ::)
Openreach have been trialling faster FTTC speeds (the type of BT Infinity that most people have) quite successfully over the last few months. Virgin need to be seen to be competitive, esp as they sell their service on its speed. Competition is good for us consumers.

That said, both of my FTTC lines manage around 50-60Mbps download and 15+Mbps upload, and even singulaly, each is plenty fast enough. Streams fine, upload/download is good, online/cloud storage is actually usable, VPN is usable and VOIP (proper, not Skype shite) works well, all at the same time. Not sure I need extra speed currently. Not that I'd complain if I had more speed and no price hike.
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Re: New in the field fibre optic speed of 1.4 terabits
« Reply #4 on: 22 January 2014, 19:14:24 »
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Re: New in the field fibre optic speed of 1.4 terabits
« Reply #5 on: 22 January 2014, 20:45:17 »
Yonks ago I worked for a cableTV company that was thinking about rolling out 600kbps cable modems when most Internet access was dial up modem(gosh you have to be old to remember that). We had an in lab demo of 100Mbps. Oh how stuff has moved on except here in the wilds of Spain. I still have two V90 modems I am hanging onto in case they come in......
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Re: New in the field fibre optic speed of 1.4 terabits
« Reply #6 on: 22 January 2014, 20:48:14 »
My first modem was a posh Hayes 2400bps one
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Re: New in the field fibre optic speed of 1.4 terabits
« Reply #7 on: 22 January 2014, 20:49:59 »
Think I started with a 14400 isa card.
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Re: New in the field fibre optic speed of 1.4 terabits
« Reply #8 on: 22 January 2014, 21:37:16 »
300 BPS (V.21) here, 1980  :y
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Re: New in the field fibre optic speed of 1.4 terabits
« Reply #9 on: 23 January 2014, 09:51:30 »
Quote from: Lincs Robert on 22 January 2014, 21:37:16
300 BPS (V.21) here, 1980  :y

Yep, found one of those 300 BPS acoustic couplers in a skip IIRC. It was duly connected to my BBC micro and off I went. ;D

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Re: New in the field fibre optic speed of 1.4 terabits
« Reply #10 on: 23 January 2014, 10:33:15 »
Thinking back time line wise on my transmission equipment design career.

In 1995 we were cost reducing 622Mbps line cards and launching a revised 2.4G system with directly modulated lasers (although 2.4G using modulators had been sold for a few years).

I recall the first 10G cards arriving around 1999/2000 with 40G around 2004/5.

2000 onwards brought Photonics to the market which made the bit rates insignificant whne it came to bandwidth down a fibre was concerned

Note, these were all real systems and not lab setups.
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