Whats the fastest internet connection?

[EnragedPC]

What is it and how much does it cost? The fastest ive heard of is OC-3...what speed does the fastest run at {give me megabytes not megabits}

 

[beer]

OC-48

6.54 gigabits/second

Off some poster I saw at work

 

[abracadabra1]

oc-192, no??

 

[abracadabra1]

cost is ridiculous i'm sure ~100,000+???

 

[Relf Lauren]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=413527&highlight_key=y





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Relf Lauren

 

[Soccer55]

It's something like OC-768.....if you search the archived messages here, you should find a thread with a few links to the descriptions of the connections.

-Tom

 

[beer]

All WAN connections are routed through fiber optic networks, it's the only way to tranfer signals lost distances with huge amounts of bandwidth.

 

[psteng19]

fastest i've heard of is OC-48 and that runs at 2488.320 Mbps.
i believe the internet backbone runs this <-- info very shady...

most speeds are measured by bps, so do the conversion yourself

 

[Lars]

OC768 36,057 MBit/Sec

 

[KameLeon]

[edit]

 

[GoldenBear]

I doubt anyone can beat my 2400 baud connection.

 

[tigerbait]

wow.. can you imaging AOL instant messenger on that?

 

[N8Magic]

It's OC-768, we are running with the new Nortel Optera Metro units that are capable of those speeds.

OC-768 = 34357.248 Mbits p/s or 4.294656 GBytes p/s.
That speed is only achievable over fibre.

The fastest you could get to your home (over copper) is an STS-12.
STS-12 = 536.832Mbits p/s or 67.104 Mbytes p/s.