[Article] Internet Connections will hit 10Gbit by 2010 in Japan

Moriarty

Internet connections will hit 10Gbit by 2010 in Japan

Internet Connections will hit 10Gbit by 2010
2004/8/29

Nihon Keizai Shinbun reported earlier this week that NTT, Fujitsu and the Japanese Government are forming a working group to develop internet technologies that will hopefully allow homes to receve 10 gigabit internet connections by 2010.

The Japanese government (the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunication) are going to start a development plan next year that will increase the speed of the internet in Japan to 100 times faster than the current 100MB fibre internet, with partner companies it is aiming for completion by 2010. It plans to develop a unique technology, expecting to increase competitiveness in the network equipments market, which is currently dominated by the American IT company, Cisco Systems. The Ministry is going to make a budget request of 10 billion yen for the project over the next five years.

Current router technology for fiber optic networks must covert the optical (light) signals to electrical signals and back again to process them, this causes a delay in processing and as such a slowing down of internet communications. The group plans to develop technology that does not requite the conversion steps and so make even faster broadband internet services practical. If successful, the internet connection speed available could become more than 10G bits/sec (10 billion bits), which is 100 times faster than the current fastest speed of 100 Mbit on current fiber internet connections. This will take only about 35 seconds to send a 2 hours long video, which takes around 57 minutes with the current technology. The ministry has asked for support from NTT and Fujitsu and will form an organization composed of government and private companies to start the project.

Moriarty

Yet another country realising that DSL/cable is already becoming an outdated 20th century technology.

Perhaps by 2020 we might start hearing rumbles of thoughts of a possible plan to maybe implement this somewhere sometime. Maybe.

jwt

That kind of technology would render the current LAN WAN divide redundant.

wire speed 100mbs connections are pushing current PC's ability to handle the data flow.
Gigabit is already seeing bottlenecks in the PC being the limiting factor on one to one wire speeds.

10 Gb would make a multi NIC server or cluster of servers work hard.

You'd need PCI express cards for that kind of data flow

Your hard drive propably handles a burst speed of 60 -80 MBs or 600 to 800 Mbs. Think about that. Your internet connection of tomorrow could be faster than current single ide hard drive speeds. Serial ata is good for 1.5 Gbs flat out max.

And these guys are talking about 10Gbs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Makes offline storage an attractive prospect doesn't it?

John

Ciaran500

I wonder will we even have BB everywhere in Ireland by 2010? :rolleyes: If we do it certainly will not be rolled out by Eircom.



A connection of this speed would reqire new technloigies for the whole pc. Solid state HDD?

jwt

Ciaran500 wrote:

A connection of this speed would reqire new technloigies for the whole pc. Solid state HDD?

How about that laser read crystal stuff IBM is working on, stuff turns to sludge 20 degrees above absolute zero but seeing as you'd be super cooling the PC anyway

Or your ISP provides several GB of memory storage on their servers and you can access that quicker than your local hard drive

The mind boggles

John

OfflerCrocGod

Moriarty wrote:

Perhaps by 2020 we might start hearing rumbles of thoughts of a possible plan to maybe implement this somewhere sometime. Maybe.

YES! Whooo! Doesn't it make you proud to be Irish? Ireland always looking backward in the hope of finding a clue, the rest of the world just doesn't get it, we are so superior to them :rolleyes:





I'm just going to cry for a while and maybe dream of 1Mbps connections in 2015 *sigh*

spongebob

10 Gbit a second will be cool when Ericom deploys it as standard by 2010 as well.

It will take all of 3.2 seconds to download your Standard Eircom Monthly Cap of 4Gb and they will clock up €36 a Gb(yte) thereafter or €36 every 1.2seconds you are hammering the line.

Good Business, what what ! Dont throw out that billing system lads .

M

jwt

Muck wrote:

It will take all of 3.2 seconds to download your Standard Eircom Monthly Cap of 4Gb and they will clock up €36 a Gb(yte) thereafter or €36 every 1.2seconds you are hammering the line.
M

Can just see the beancounters getting out boxes of kleenex and some hand cream at that thought

John

damien

Moriarty wrote:

Perhaps by 2020 we might start hearing rumbles of thoughts of a possible plan to maybe implement this somewhere sometime. Maybe.

Yeah unless the people who want a better future start acting now. So if you want Japan like speed start getting on the Government's case now. Unless people start making noise they're not going to listen.

Ripwave

This isn't a report about a plan to introduce 10G to the home by 2010. This is a report about a Government research grant to reseacrh technologies that will raise data rates, so that Japanese companies can sell more network routers than they do now, and eat some of Cisco's lunch.

In their wildest dreams, they'd love to make a breakthrough that'd deliver 10G speeds (though you couldn't actually do anything with it, because PC speeds aren't going to be up to it in 5 years time). But they're not going to be delivering 10G to the home in 2010 in Japan, so don't go getting your knickers in a twist over it!

jwt

Awwwww!

Why are you spoiling our fun

Anyway I had assumed this was more aimed at serious WAN infrastructure

jwt wrote:

That kind of technology would render the current LAN WAN divide redundant.

John

Ripwave

Moriarty wrote:

The Ministry is going to make a budget request of 10 billion yen for the project over the next five years.

By the way, just to put that in perspective, 10 billion Yen is about 75 million Euro, or €1 per head, over 5 years - 20c per head per year.