The BBC today reports that Deutch Telekom (you know them as the owners of T-Mobile), in conjunction with Alcatel Lucent (you know them as formerly AT&T) have successfully breached the 400Gbps barrier; 512Gbps total, with everything over 400Gbps used for error correction. As the article conveys, that’s equivalent to sending 77 CDs over the line in a second: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17271797.
Questions that occur here are as follows:
How long before this becomes marketable?
How long before the industry will allow this to come to market? (You know what I mean!)
How long until (or will) the threat of that “higher speed, privatized internet” so oft threatened becomes reality?
Interesting times, indeed.