Download a Blu-ray disc in 2 seconds?

Unsurprising, Japan once again shows its prowess in communications technology. At this year’s Interop Tokyo 2010, NTT Communications, the telecommunications company that basically runs the map in Japan, introduced the world’s new standard in broadband speed for pratical use. Yes, one fast enough to download a Blu-ray Disc’s worth of data in two seconds! That record number is 100 gigabytes per second. This will soon be standardized by the international group, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE and will use a 100GBASE-LR4 based ethernet connection. With this, will Japan finally embrace online gaming? Press release and video are below. Video is courtesy of DigInfo News.

[Sunny_D]

Oh boy, if this speed becomes standard in Japan, expect hackers to easily burn PS3 games onto a disk in 2 seconds, if and when the PS3 is hacked and pirated. But, I'm pretty sure this speed will take a while to become mainstream so who knows when that'll happen.

[Montrealien]

in time, this speed will be standard. 10 years ago downloading gigs in a few minutes was unheard of.

[thematrix1298]

This is really cool since it doesn't require the infrastructure of current fiber channel to be changed. You only need the new NIC card.

[AAACE5]

Other countries have great internet speeds and in america I think the fastest we can get is 20 Mbps. I guess we'll see this tech in about 50 years in the U.S.

[RememberThe357]

My speed is, no lie, 1.4mbps download and 0.6 upload. And I'm in Seattle, not exactly a small town.

[mindedone]

Verizon's FiOS currently offers symetrical 35Mbps, and I know you can get 50/20 asymetrical for personal use.

Edit: I see 100 GigaBITS per second, not 100 GigaBYTES per second. You would think people that claim to be into this kinda stuff would easily know the difference.

[turnerdc]

Eh, alot of companies offer more than 20...

[Darkfocus]

http://speedtest.net/global...

North America actually has the second highest average internet speed you should be glad. I only get like 1.3 Mb/s down and 0.5 up

[XactGamer]

Darkfocus is right NA comes in 2nd for high speed, I have 20mb/s for just $35 a month.

[thematrix1298]

Yes it's gigaBITs but still 100/8=12.5Giga byte/sec. I think this is why the article says download blu-ray in 2 seconds[12.5*2=25gb-->BD capacity]. Anyways 12.5G/s is blazing fast....:)

[shoddy]

It cost $50 a month.

[Viper7]

You can probably have around 100Mbps connection if you live in Helsinki(capital of finland). But as for the city where I am living you can get around 10Mbps (you probably can get higher but that will cost quite a bit).

currently paying 30€ for 1Mbps connection which is really expensive considering that youd probably get the 100Mbps connection for that price in Helsinki (or at least 10Mbps).

Its all about the location : /

[UltraNova]

You guys need to be thankful! Where i come from 8mbit is the max and it costs 80 euros per month. Not to mention the mid 70-80s infrastructure and what we get is a 700mb movie in 2.5hrs more or less!

[Menech]

Why would you want to download Blu-ray, HD-DVD is clearly the industry standard.

[beardpapa]

at that speed, expect ISPs to charge a buttload in the US.

[wquach]

Both true comments but the average speeds by continent are not good indicators so much as by country, especially compared to other developed nations:

http://www.dailybloggr.com/...

Notice that the U.S. is at number 28, while countries such as Korea, Japan, Sweden, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, and France all have almost up to double or more the download speeds of the U.S.

In terms of broadband/internet architecture, the U.S. is lagging.

However, companies like Google wish to change that:

http://www.google.com/appse...

with 1 Gigabit speeds. This of course would take several years to implement and build across the nation, not to mention service and spread through areas other than major cities.

[Non_sequitur]

It's true. Verizon took a while to get fiber optics in my neighborhood and it happens to be in one of the first cities Verizon started putting fiber optic cables under ground and on utility poles. It took so long to get North Texas wired simply because of the fact that it is so large as well as the rest of the US. those other countries have the advantage of being a smaller which allows for faster progress in getting their countries wired, and in some cases it was further hastened through government funding for defense purposes.

[RedDragan]

lol... we in the UK are still hoping for 2MB across the whole nation. In fact, the announced 2009 was 2Mbits universal coverage. Sure there will quicker connections near the exchanges but you would have thought they would have layed down cable instead of trying improve copper in the rural areas lol...

Our government is a joke :(

[SOAD]

I think if this kind of DL speed becomes standard and IF the internet service providers remove downloading caps, digital distribution will become a standard distribution method for console games.

[mittwaffen]

Its an experiment; they arnt planning to spread it around NA.

If they do it'll be YEARS (5-10) for them to afford/wire it all up.

[RedDragan]

With yearly profit is in the billions, Google can afford it now.

This is revenue from advertising only (with, nearly only). If they did a mass rollout of this black fibre stuff their revenue would shoot up hugely and they could easily get the whole of the USA wired in 2 years maximum.

But... capitalism doesn't work that way. It's all about screwing over the population's wallet.

[ravinash]

Do you know how much Fiber Optice costs?
Even with Billions it would still take years to install all the cables.

[morkendo]

in 2 seconds?? personally i like to burn rental ps3 games

[ravinash]

If everyone was running at that speed, I'd expect the big 3 would start turning to Cloud systems to run their software from.

[astar123456789]

wow i would love to have that in my house, i would not now what to do with it!

[iamgoatman]

Do what most people do with a fast connection, spend all day on Facebook and Twitter! Y'know, really put it through it's paces...

[shoddy]

movies/games streaming will be in second.

[karl]

u can now download an HD porn movie in 2 seconds!>..

[wicko]

lol, too bad harddrives can't write that fast. Hell, the fastest interface we have is SATA3 and that maxes out at 6Gb/s (0.75GB/s), and the fastest DDR3 memory maxes out 16.7GB/s.. hardware needs to catch up.

[RememberThe357]

That's hell slow! lol

[rexus12345]

so..... what kind of system did they use to test this speed?

[mittwaffen]

DDR3 used in i7's (1366) and not shit i5/i7/Core 2 systems have peak 25.6GB/S bandwidth + Overclocking (For maximum memory speeds) makes 30GB/S easily possible while in triple channel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

SATA 3 Gbit/s limit at 250 MB/s net read speed. Ten channels of fast flash can reach well over 500 MB/s with new ONFI drives

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Your facts are wrong, YOU FAIL.

[wicko]

Holy shit you are a moron.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
==> SATA Revision 3.0 (SATA 6 Gb/s)

And for RAM I was going with JDEC standards as listed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

You are right about DDR3 triple channel, but have no clue what SATA3 is. Good job failing at trolling, LOL. Please nitpick someone else's post.

[McPoopin]

Talk about a dumbass Wicko^^

His articles if you read them tell you the real bandwidth. Also your DDR3 comment is incorrect due to the fact that the system its used in can dictate higher speeds.

Dont read the header, read the whole article. Mittens articles which i've read say otherwise.

[wicko]

Regardless of whether its 100Gb/s or 100GB/s, harddrive speeds are still NOWHERE near being able to match that kind of speed.

And no, that speed is actually the standard. And I already admitted he was right about triple channel, so I fail to see your point.

And yeah, I probably should have read the article to find out the submitter doesn't know the difference between gigabits and gigabytes, but the header already told me what I needed to know.

Please troll again.

[iamgoatman]

And I can't even get 256Kb/s ADSL here in the UK!

Hell, I'd settle for 2MB/s broadband, even though that's ancient compared to some countries average speeds.

[Dylantalon1]

you guys are flipping losers. you guys are thinking of criminal activities you can do with such a fast internet connection instead of all the good this can do such as downloading massive amount of porn.

[alphakennybody]

amen.

[RememberThe357]

Pirated porn!

[Ahmay]

4 hd videos at once...

[KimoNoir]

what sucks ass is that with a download rate of that speed, what server is going to allow massive multiple individuals download files at that rate let alone even a 1gbps.

[cyclindk]

Gigabytes per second...? We're still downloading in Kbs/Mbs per second (if we're lucky) in Texas...

[mindedone]

I think they meant Gigabits per second, not Gigabytes.

Edit: HA! beat you

[smilydude13]

Not Gigabytes. They're Gigabits if I'm correct. Generally ISP's sell them to you by the megabit so when they say 8 Mb internet it really means you're probably going to be averaging about 1-1.3 MB I think... Confused the hell out of me for a while there.

[Darkfocus]

ya 100 gigabits is actually 12.8 gigabytes.
still it's huge

[ONYX737]

you could get one of those $1 trial porn site offers and download every video they have then cancel !!!!!

[CLOUD1983]

In Greece the fastest internet connection is 24 Mbps (for 20-25 euro/month), but no1 can dl with the MAX spd I for example dl with 1600 kb/s (1.6 MB/s) / 1700 kb/s (1.7 MB/s) and this is the best u can have ppl that live out of big cities have worst spd I leave in the center, anyway if this crazy spd connection become common in the future we need HDD with many tera and many times faster than now, with this spd u can full a 500 GB HDD instantly that's crazy! :D

[thehitman]

Can do this because they have 1 huge company controlling it all mostly its not that big but here in the US you have serveral huge companies monopolizing different areas and when that happens you cant get a universal control over the network and lines so people will always have worse than others in some areas mainly if your not a huge city like NY or something you will get shafted on speeds or if you dont dish out huge money to get that speed which is mainly for business uses etc. Hopefully this will bump up the current standard a notch though but probably wont see this here for another 5 years.

[ExPresident]

So let me get this straight, you think 1 company should have total control of network lines and then total control of the prices rather than several large companies battling it out for our $, creating competition, which creates faster speeds at lower prices for us?

If thats what your promoting then go do it somewhere else. Multiple companies having control of the ability to make faster connections etc keep this stuff affordable and keeps us customers getting better deals.

[BubbleSystemSuck]

but... write speed on HDD?

[dcbronco]

It's usually just under 20. but the up is supposed to be 2 and it's usually 3.5. but Comcast is about to offer 100 down in DC. Not sure about how up. And my current service is 39.99. They say the 100 will be the same because of my current deal, but I don't believe them.

[Ironfungus]

Time to move to Japan!

[Jeff257]

I currently pay for a 15mbs connection and with my wireless laptop I usually hit speeds in the 9-10mb range. My cable company is supposed to be upping the speed to 100mbs per second in the future though. I dont know a time frame of when exaclty though. Im currently with Suddenlink in Greenville, NC.

[delgernaran]

But usually it is around 200mb down.

[ShiftyLookingCow]

At that speed, you can just connect the cable directly to my brain and leave me in some Matrix like pod.

[Darkfiber]

Haha I'm so glad I live in Canada with our 25kb/s connections and our 2gb monthly bandwidth limits. Yeah, 2.

[Umb]

PORN OVERLOAD!!!!

[ShiftyLookingCow]

A lot of men will end up with Popeye's right hand.

[Umb]

Unless your left handed, but I think alternating hands will help give both arms a good workout...lol

[Xfanboy]

Imagine pirates!!! thats why their is cloud gaming!!!

[ShiftyLookingCow]

I wish Ubisoft would quickly release that game instead of Imagine Babies.

[despair]

I can hope and dream..sigh :(

[GrizzlyMedia]

is really good for online and some downloads but my DL 5.1mbps UL 700kbps witch is kinda good for 6mbps and if i look at my SPEED on my status is says 54.0Mbps thinking of going with 12mbps in a few months but there is a wireless USB stick on amazon that allows you to get 150Mbps on any internet connection that seems like a long shot but the USB wireless stick for $17.99 GREAT BUY but will it give u the 150Mbps speed

[spektical]

AAACE5 3h ago
It's so sad!
Other countries have great internet speeds and in america I think the fastest we can get is 20 Mbps. I guess we'll see this tech in about 50 years in the U.S.
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the US government and military use T4 connections....

[silvacrest]

japan has always had better internet speeds then almost everyone else, why would ultra fast broadband speeds change their online gaming?

i'll admit, if even half this speed becomes standard in most cities, physical media will die and i will embrace DD

but right now the highest speed im getting is 7.5 MB, not bad but nothing compared to this

[Haipa Sonikku]

Yeah. I posted this on the site yesterday and was on an extreme time limit. It's Gigabit. NOT Gigabyte. My apologies for the typo. I just got up and realized this article was up on this site before I had time to make the correction. Still read the entire article and watch the video. Thanks.

Haipa Sonikku/Author

[ATi_Elite]

The reason why The U.S. only has 20 mbps is because we use more Bandwidth than any other country and most countries combined. I think the U.S. military alone uses more bandwidth than every country except like S. Korea China Japan and England and Germany.

S. Korea has the best internet infrastructure and all 50 million S. Koreans are playing Starcraft right now vs. 309 million in the U.S. where about 30 million people are playing 1 of 5 games either WoW Runescape Poker Counter Strike or Facebook Farm online. Then you can add another 35 million for all the other online games.

[andyboy13]

Yes guys that speed is really awesome but... How on earth is your computer going to be able to keep up with that? I mean think about it. The computer you are downloading to has to be able to write at 100Gbits per second if it were really going to utilize that speed and as far as I know there isn't any home based raid system that would allow that. I fast flash hdd can do 3-4Gbits per second but that's it. Still though don't get me wrong, my pants would need changing if I had that as an option here in Canada. :D