• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I wonder what non-telco applications will use this

    I wonder if something like a sport stadium has video requirements that would get close with HFR 8K video?

    • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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      2 months ago

      To be fair, it all trickles down to home users eventually. We’re starting to see 10+gbps fiber in enthusiast home networks and internet connections. Small offices are widely adopting 100gbps fiber. It wasn’t that long ago that we were adopting 1 gigabit ethernet in home networks, and it won’t be long before we see widespread 800+ gigabit fiber.

      Streaming video is definitely a big application where more bandwidth will come in handy, I think also transferring large AI models in the 100s of gigabytes may also become a large amount of traffic in the near future.

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      2 months ago

      Disaggregated compute might be able to leverage this in the data center. I could use this to get my server, gaming PC and home theater to share memory bandwidth on top of storage, heck maybe some direct memory access between distributed accelerators.

      Gotta eat those PCI lanes somehow

      • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 months ago

        Disaggregated compute might be able to leverage this in the data center.

        I don’t think people would fuck with amplifiers in a DC environment. Just using more fiber would be so much cheaper and easier to maintain. At least I haven’t heard of any current Datacenters even using conventional DWDM in the C-band.

        At best Google was using Bidir Optics, which I suppose is a minimal form of wavelength division multiplexing.