A single chip has managed to transfer over a petabit-per-second by a team of scientists from universities in Denmark, Sweden, and Japan. That’s over one million gigabits of data per second over a fibre optic cable, or basically the entire internet’s worth of traffic.<\/p>\n
The researchers\u2014A. A. J\u00f8rgensen, D. Kong, L. K. Oxenl\u00f8we\u2014and their team successfully showed a data transmission of 1.84 petabits over a 7.9km fibre cable using just a single chip. That’s not quite as fast as some other alternatives with larger, bulkier systems, which have reached up to 10.66 petabits, but the key here is scale: the proposed system is very compact.<\/p>\n
By splitting a data stream into 37 sections, one for each core of a fibre optic cable, and then further splitting each of those streams into 223 channels, the researchers were able to remove a great deal of interference that slows down optical systems and therefore deliver an internet’s worth of data transmission using a single chip.<\/p>\n
“You could say the average internet traffic in the world is about a petabit per second. What we transmit is two times that,” J\u00f8rgensen says in a comment on New Scientist<\/a>. “It\u2019s an incredibly large amount of data that we\u2019re sending through, essentially, less than a square millimetre [of cable]. It just goes to show that we can go so much further than we are today with internet connections.”<\/p>\n The researchers also theorise that such a system could support speeds of up to 100 petabits-per-second in massively parallel systems.<\/p>\n The research paper<\/a> relies on a bank of investigations into the concept of a single chip solution across multiple researchers and papers, including one by researchers in Australia called ‘Ultra-dense optical data transmission over standard fibre with a single chip source<\/a>‘. Catchy.<\/p>\n \n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n (Image credit: Future)<\/span><\/p>\n Best gaming PC<\/strong><\/a>: The top pre-built machines from the pros Essentially, high-speed data transmission that often requires a fibre optic cable and bulky equipment is now being miniaturised into a smaller on-chip package. Instead of multiple lasers in parallel, which come with their own set of challenges, it’s possible to shrink a good deal of this equipment to the silicon level. And with that even remove some of the difficulties in sending massive data packages long distances and at high speeds.<\/p>\n A big part of these new breakthroughs are microcombs, which are a way of generating constant and measurable frequencies of light. These are not only useful for shrinking down the requirements for a system such as this, but have also recently seen breakthroughs when added to CMOS chips<\/a>.<\/p>\n In fact, a whole lot more could be added to a CMOS chip to make this whole system even more integrated, says J\u00f8rgensen. So if this seems fast and compact now, it’s only a matter of time before an even more integrated, speedier version is developed. Stack up more of these devices into a single parallel system and you’re talking mega-bandwidth from a single server rack.<\/p>\n Basically, the internet has a whole lot more room to grow.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [#item_image]A single chip has managed to transfer the entire internet’s traffic in a single second<\/p>\n A single chip has managed to transfer over a petabit-per-second by a team of scientists from universities in Denmark, Sweden, and Japan. That’s over one million gigabits of data per second over a fibre optic cable, or basically the entire internet’s worth of traffic.<\/p>\n The researchers\u2014A. A. J\u00f8rgensen, D. Kong, L. K. Oxenl\u00f8we\u2014and their team successfully showed a data transmission of 1.84 petabits over a 7.9km fibre cable using just a single chip. That’s not quite as fast as some other alternatives with larger, bulkier systems, which have reached up to 10.66 petabits, but the key here is scale: the proposed system is very compact.<\/p>\n By splitting a data stream into 37 sections, one for each core of a fibre optic cable, and then further splitting each of those streams into 223 channels, the researchers were able to remove a great deal of interference that slows down optical systems and therefore deliver an internet’s worth of data transmission using a single chip.<\/p>\n “You could say the average internet traffic in the world is about a petabit per second. What we transmit is two times that,” J\u00f8rgensen says in a comment on New Scientist<\/a>. “It\u2019s an incredibly large amount of data that we\u2019re sending through, essentially, less than a square millimetre [of cable]. It just goes to show that we can go so much further than we are today with internet connections.”<\/p>\n The researchers also theorise that such a system could support speeds of up to 100 petabits-per-second in massively parallel systems.<\/p>\n The research paper<\/a> relies on a bank of investigations into the concept of a single chip solution across multiple researchers and papers, including one by researchers in Australia called ‘Ultra-dense optical data transmission over standard fibre with a single chip source<\/a>‘. Catchy.<\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n (Image credit: Future)<\/span><\/p>\n Best gaming PC<\/strong><\/a>: The top pre-built machines from the pros Essentially, high-speed data transmission that often requires a fibre optic cable and bulky equipment is now being miniaturised into a smaller on-chip package. Instead of multiple lasers in parallel, which come with their own set of challenges, it’s possible to shrink a good deal of this equipment to the silicon level. And with that even remove some of the difficulties in sending massive data packages long distances and at high speeds.<\/p>\n A big part of these new breakthroughs are microcombs, which are a way of generating constant and measurable frequencies of light. These are not only useful for shrinking down the requirements for a system such as this, but have also recently seen breakthroughs when added to CMOS chips<\/a>.<\/p>\n In fact, a whole lot more could be added to a CMOS chip to make this whole system even more integrated, says J\u00f8rgensen. So if this seems fast and compact now, it’s only a matter of time before an even more integrated, speedier version is developed. Stack up more of these devices into a single parallel system and you’re talking mega-bandwidth from a single server rack.<\/p>\n Basically, the internet has a whole lot more room to grow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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