IBM ups cloud and data centre transfer rates to 200-400Gb per second
February 14, 2014
Grazed from CloudComputingIntelligence. Author: Marcus Austin.
The scientists at IBM have invented a new technology to speed up internet data transfer rates to four times the current rates with speeds approaching 400 Gigabits per second (Gb/s) and all done at extremely low power. As Big Data and Internet traffic continues to grow exponentially, future networking standards have to support higher data rates. For example, in 1992, 100 Gigabyte of data was transferred per day, whereas today, traffic has grown to two Exabytes per day, a 20 million fold increase.
To support the increase in traffic, scientists at IBM Research and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have been developing ultra-fast and energy efficient analog-to-digital converter (ADC) technology to enable complex digital equalization across long-distance fibre channels. The speed boost is based on a device that can be used to improve transferring Big Data between clouds and data centres four times faster than current technology. At this speed 160 Gigabytes, the equivalent of a two-hour, 4K ultra-high definition movie or 40,000 songs, could be downloaded in only a few seconds…
The device was presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco and while this latest technology is only a lab prototype, a previous version of the design has been licensed to Semtech Corp, a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors. The company is using the technology to develop advanced communications platforms expected to be announced later this year…
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