Internet at Ludicrous Speed?

[Tut]

The Cisco press release makes the following claims about the CRS-3 router:

It enables the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second; every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously; and every motion picture ever created to be streamed in less than four minutes.

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Surf the entire web in 5 minutes, then get on with your day.

[JediNord]

I have to object... they are making time wasting WAY too efficient!

[morostheSophist]

That's a hell of a lot.  Makes me wonder how file sizes are going to grow in the near (and distant) future.

[Dinshu]

I honestly dont see this happening in the five years or so. ISPs will need to upgrade and will likely charge an arm and a leg for this service. Its cool to hear whats possible in the near future though.

[Mush]

That's a lot of pr0n.

[Jel]

That's a lot of pr0n.

[Grimthorn]

That's a hell of a lot.  Makes me wonder how file sizes are going to grow in the near (and distant) future.

I can't imagine this will make a difference in file size in the near future. Hard drive space is still going to be a limiting factor, so until we come out with higher TB storage devices that are affordable, I don't see file size growing too much from where they are. In fact, I expect we're going to continue seeing new formats shrink file sizes as they've been doing for years. I suspect the next few big things in file formatting will be downsizing the space required for HD video footage. What else is there that we really need to change the file format on?



also: Lol@Jel.

[Citairen]

Guys, this is for backbone links which is an area where the limit had been routing capability rather than what the linkspeed could be capable of for some time.

How does it affect the internet? Well not much, sure backbone carriers can use a few fatter pipes instead of a group of smaller ones to handle the same flow. Likely they can use existing fibre and scale up instead of lighting up more. The limitation is never backbone anyways. Backbone capacity has been increasing at a rate that outpaces the growth of end point capacity and consumption.

In short, the guys running the main pipes run them like it is infrastructure, this is just another tool to help them keep the tubes flowing when the flow is backing up in the skinny hoses in the last mile.

[Grimthorn]

So in other words, this new router is going to be like going from having a bunch of 2-lane roads to building the Autobahn?

[RhettSarlin]

AN OCEAN OF BANDWIDTH with garden hoses of flow. gotta love it.

[Tyrphanax]

Drip irrigation, more like.

[morostheSophist]

So in other words, this new router is going to be like going from having a bunch of 2-lane roads to building the Autobahn?

Kind of.  But it's like having a 50-lane autobahn, and still having a single, tightly curving on/off ramp for each major city.  The Internet itself will be able to run faster with fewer machines, but access to it won't really improve until those ramps get upgraded.

[Citairen]

But if you listen to the tier3 ISPs it's good enough to not be on dialup.