this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
220 points (86.9% liked)

Technology

59738 readers
3488 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

China launches world’s fastest internet with 1.2 terabit per second link, can transmit 150 4K movies a second::China is claiming that they now have the world's fastest internet. Their new network transmits 1.2 terabits per second. That's over 1200 gigabits, per second. At this speed, the network will be able to send 150 4K movies in less than a second. Furthermore, it can send all of Netflix's global content

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 193 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More like you could download the entire Netflix library if you could ping it

[–] Piecemakers3Dprints 31 points 1 year ago

This new network will only allow you to Xi Jinping it.

[–] onelikeandidie 14 points 1 year ago

Underrated comment

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The storage capacity this needs...
I wanna see that infrastructure! I need to see it in person!

[–] EndOfLine 80 points 1 year ago (2 children)

China is claiming...

Aaaand I no longer have any confidence in the validity of this claim.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1.2 terabits is actually a doable amount

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] cheese_greater 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In People's Republic of China, claim makes you

Edit: or...claim gets paid for you!

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When I see these pro-China pieces, I remember that Chinese citizens can’t speak freely, exercise political will, or breathe clean air. As well as China’s actions towards the annexation/militarization of surrounding waters, erasure of Tibetan and Uyghuar cultures, and propagation of destabilizing online propaganda.

[–] iopq 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Chinese citizens can breathe clean air. Japan is only a 4 hour flight away

[–] Piecemakers3Dprints 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an unusual way to spell Taiwan, but sure?

[–] iopq 1 points 1 year ago

Taiwan air is not that good, actually. It has heavy industry, so AQI of 100 days happen often

[–] PopShark 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was gonna say isn’t China a big ol landmass of a country with diverse climates like most big countries? I recently saw a photo I could have sworn was taken in the bahamas or some other stereotypical tropical paradise but no apparently southern China has some cool beaches lol

[–] iopq 1 points 1 year ago

Actually, yes, the air quality is good in places away from heavy industry. Hainan has some good surfing spots, it's usually what people think when they think about China beach spots. That said, it's as expensive as California because it's one of the few great beach places that Chinese people without a passport can go to (other benefits being everyone speaks Chinese, the food is familiar, etc.). Thailand is a much better value for money, for example

[–] scarabic 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All true. They have their own version of this though.

“When I see pro American pieces, I remember that their citizens are obese and undereducated, or subjugated by centuries old race caste system and incarcerated at very high rates. Their schools are failing, their cities are riddled with crime, their infrastructure is crumbling, half of them hate the other half, and they wield imperial control around the world with their military, killing a million Iraqis to secure their oil.”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m sure they’d love to come live in the US though. Lines at the US visa offices in China have been enormous.

Funny thing is, I don’t see articles that say “America launches (best AI thing / fastest chip / 5g bs)” … just the company (usually international) that did the work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Also all true, sadly. I'm so lucky to be European, although it's not paradise here, either. But still...

load more comments (10 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] jordanlund 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Slamming into the great firewall faster than ever?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Haha thanks for the good chuckle

[–] SoggyBread 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

This is moat likely a core/main/back bone switch that feeds many smaller switches. Its not outside the norm, we're seeing 400gb and 800gb switches that are easily able to push that much bandwidth out a single port. 1.2tb or 1.6tb switches are the next logical step. You'll only find these switches in massive datacenters or for server clusters like for AI or high performance computing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My campus is working on upgrading our redunant 100gb ISP connections to 400gb next summer, so not necessarily just for HPC/AI/'massive datacenter'.

Granted,

A) our 100gb edge routers are reaching end of life

B) a LOT of grant proposals will be able to put down "400gb uplink on our campus", which helps land research money

C) The new routers will probably run for 5-6 years before we start scheduling an upgrade, so its considered money well spent on future proofing.

Our actual bandwidth utilization normally peaks at like 22gbps (every now and then we do see it get closer to 75gbps, but that's perfsonar running tests to/from other institutions).

[–] thefloweracidic 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for dropping some savory knowledge!

[–] scarabic 1 points 1 year ago

It has to be. There’s nothing in anyone’s house that can use anything remotely approaching that much bandwidth.

[–] Wrench 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't worry, bandwidth will still be shit because of all the spy funnels and filters traffic is run through

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

149 camera feeds of the person watching the 1 video should be enough no?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Internet implies that multiple separate networks can all use this link at 1.2 tbps. This is not the case.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

But I guess no externally routable Internet address?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a horribly written article. I think I read the same thing 4 or 5 times. Just padding I guess to fill the available bandwidth?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lol thanks for the heads up

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Now I want a fiber optic keyboard cleaning brush

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it's probably just an internal link

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Internet in China is basically a giant intranet.

[–] Kbobabob 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] currycourier 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that just called intranet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

no more like a link between 2 nodes that belong to the same AS

[–] Sanctus 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Plug that shit into my veins

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

China's economy is set up for these headlines, government bodies are spending hard on infrastructure and sometimes it's good (roads, bridges, dams, most of them have a long term value to a region) and sometimes it's overbuilt, like the small/medium city with two airports.

They want the implication to be "China has the best internet, thus China is the best place to go for my internet company" or something like that. But they are intentionally overbuilding for a future state that may never come, just like the small/medium city with two airports.

It's great to invest in infrastructure, but other things count too, and there are diminishing returns at some level of development.

[–] thefloweracidic 0 points 1 year ago

Sorry that you're getting down voted for facts

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Great, now websites will get even more bloated.

[–] ag10n 4 points 1 year ago
load more comments
view more: next ›