[QUOTE]Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have devised a new way of creating twisted laser beams — optical vortexes — for carrying vast, near-infinite amounts of data down optical fiber, discovering exoplanets, and more. SLAC’s optical vortex technology is much more advanced than previous attempts at creating and transmitting twisted light, allowing for shorter pulses, higher intensities, and much wider wavelengths — including X-rays. These twisted laser beams are so high-fidelity that they actually open up new, unknown areas of science; the tech is so far ahead of demand that scientists aren’t actually sure what they can use it for.[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;QB5GkGNMdA8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5GkGNMdA8[/video]
source: [url]http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/167224-twisted-laser-vortex-breakthrough-could-lead-to-near-infinite-bandwidth-new-science[/url]
Well shit, maybe when this is all done ISPs are going to stop charging moronic prices for connections with a data cap.
[QUOTE=markg06;42294554]Well shit, maybe when this is all done ISPs are going to stop charging moronic prices for connections with a data cap.[/QUOTE]
hahahaaha
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;42294564]This is so unlikely it's hilarious[/QUOTE]
If at least one company does it, then technically it forces all the others to do the same or risk losing their customers.
Let's hope the NSA won't use this to monitor even more of our traffic, seeing as they are 20 years ahead of our tech and all and could always use more bandwidth.
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;42294612]If at least one company does it, then technically it forces all the others to do the same or risk losing their customers.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=maurits150;42294621][url=http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=peering%20pressure&defid=7134218]peering pressure[/url][/QUOTE]
That's pretty much the only thing that could stop it. Since the bandwidth industry has such high initial costs, it's dominated by a few major companies. Theoretically what I said makes sense, but it could be hard to find a company that would be willing to anger their competitors by doing so.
[QUOTE=markg06;42294554]Well shit, maybe when this is all done ISPs are going to stop charging moronic prices for connections with a data cap.[/QUOTE]
You may be able to cram Tbps of data down a fiber, but you still need something to process it all :v:. This is just one angle to driving down prices, we need cheaper and faster routers as well on top of that; the routers used for the internet backbone are not cheap by any stretch of the imagination.
all the porn you could download, in a single moment, at any time, and any kind
still cant hold all my porn goddamn it
Maybe TV broadcasting could be viable with this. At the moment the broadcasters (At least on my side of the pond) don't even do HD and I even with super fast broadband I wouldn't TV to gobble up part of my connection.
"near infinite" doesn't mean shit. how good is this technology compared to current technology?
[QUOTE=markg06;42294554]Well shit, maybe when this is all done ISPs are going to stop charging moronic prices for connections with a data cap.[/QUOTE]
Well in the UK there is [url=https://www.bethere.co.uk/web/beportal/homepage]BE[/url] who offer no cap on all packages.
Scanning exoplanets sounds incredible.
It'd be cool if they could compress people into data and send them into space that way.
living in the US here, never had a cap, but never had speeds over 1.5 mb/s, but all the other packages that cost more/faster don't have caps either, so Iunno what you guys are talking. Guessing you're talking about wireless and not cable.
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[QUOTE=SCopE5000;42296115]Scanning exoplanets sounds incredible.
It'd be cool if they could compress people into data and send them into space that way.[/QUOTE]
how high are you
I wonder how far we are from giving this commercial application. Would be great to only ever be limited by how fast your HDD is.
[QUOTE=markg06;42294554]Well shit, maybe when this is all done ISPs are going to stop charging moronic prices for connections with a data cap.[/QUOTE]
No, watch them not implement this system in the future so they can keep charging customers insanely unfairly and being almost-Hitler.
This has happened before in other industries, it will happen in telecommunication as well.
infinite ddos hell yes
wait how do you ddos an inifinte bandwidth connection
And YouTube will continue to buffer slow as shit, even on 144p...
I'd be happy for a cap above 300gbs.
Sitting at 60gigs for a cap right now.
Feels horrible. Can't webcam with people. Can't stay on some multiplayer games long.
Hell, I can't even update half of the games on my STEAM list;
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All the games that -are- updated, are relatively small in size.
Can't wait for this tech to be household.
I have no cap, but the max download speed is 1mb/s :downs:
[QUOTE=ChewGum;42296848]infinite ddos hell yes
wait how do you ddos an inifinte bandwidth connection[/QUOTE]
Simple, you use two other infinite connections to DDoS it with! But then you're sort of risking the universe imploding and whatnot, so eh.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;42295970]"near infinite" doesn't mean shit. how good is this technology compared to current technology?[/QUOTE]
Read the article, it provides a very detailed scientific explanation of what this technology means. The author of this article is great.
[quote]The advantage of using three dimensions is that you can essentially transmit an unlimited number of signals through a given amount of space. Imagine one corkscrew signal, and then another one behind it, offset by just a fraction of a millimeter — and then an almost-infinite stream of further signals after that. You can only squeeze a small number of two-dimensional signals into the same plane, using a variety of modulation techniques, before collisions occur.[/quote]
[QUOTE=killermon;42295340]You may be able to cram Tbps of data down a fiber, but you still need something to process it all :v:. This is just one angle to driving down prices, we need cheaper and faster routers as well on top of that; the routers used for the internet backbone are not cheap by any stretch of the imagination.[/QUOTE]
That's why we're developing optical electronics.
The concept of a data cap on anything but a phone is just foreign to me.
Now we just need quantum computer microchips to shove in Ethernet switches.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;42297047]The concept of a data cap on anything but a phone is just foreign to me.[/QUOTE]
Glad I live in Scandinavia.
[editline]24th September 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Map in a box;42297098]Now we just need quantum computer microchips to shove in Ethernet switches.[/QUOTE]
I want computers that can generate energy from the worlds they're virtualizing.
Finally, decent hit detection in battlefield
[QUOTE=enricociccio;42295840]all the porn you could download, in a single moment, at any time, and any kind
[B]and any kind[/B][/QUOTE]
Hows that a good thing?
[QUOTE=MrJazzy;42296952]Read the article, it provides a very detailed scientific explanation of what this technology means. The author of this article is great.[/QUOTE]
it doesn't really provide any explanation of what this technology means. it uses unscientific terms like "near infinite" and "essentially...unlimited", which don't actually mean anything. it doesn't actually say how much more bandwidth it would provide or how much better it actually could perform.
[QUOTE=ChewGum;42296848]infinite ddos hell yes
wait how do you ddos an inifinte bandwidth connection[/QUOTE]
Packet loss due to being unable to process infinite packets fast enough
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