How Photonics Will Completely Transform the Internet

I spent time with NTT discussing IOWN an initiative they're started with a ton of other huge tech companies about what we need to change about the internet in order to meet the demands of data on our current infrastructure. Bottom line: photonics are the key to the next internet. Come watch.

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[ryanbuckner]

The internet cannot be fast enough. I remember when I went from 25 meg to gigabit. It was honestly one of the happiest days in my entire life! Lol! I want it to be so fast it sends me back in time 😂

[finfan]

David explaining stuff :D Hope it will all come to interlock the puzzles of the components and networks as you describe.

[yveqeshy]

As a telecoms engineer, I am very mindblown by this. The amounts of bandwidth utilization/demand and speeds right from electronic devices to internet backbones we're about to see will be astronomical

[WildwestAus]

The "I want that in my apartment" 💯%

[matt-g-recovers]

Great video.
I'm a mobile engineer and am blown away by the thought of 1000Gb per second.
NTT sounds like an interesting company to say the least.
Will investigate

[coolpoete]

Very cool! I suppose first implementation of theses in actual computers will be Enterprise but looking forward to seeing this in action

[Chemy.]

Wow, Now I want to know how it will really work inside of a computer but also how will it work on the wireless environment, pretty interesting initiative, nice video as always my friend.

[ryebread]

Thanks for another excellent video David!

[michaeloconnor]

If there are any long haul copper internet circuits still in use they are way beyond their expiration dates. Could you imagine what copper would cost if we built the current internet using copper wire. Fiber optics made with sand and lots of energy make the internet possible both technically and financially. Interesting view of the trend to use optical connectors within the computer architecture, cool. Nice work making this stuff entertaining.

[PeterSwinkels]

Nice video, if this tech becomes a reality that would be amazing!

[Manupassero]

wonderful, looking forward! the problem is that such a speed is usless if we spend 90% of our bandwith on Facebook, Instagram and other usleess stuff... no need for faster network if this is the garbage we do :)

[grambo]

Cool stuff, i had no idea my own company was even working on this lol.

[azamatbezhan]

lithium niobate in photonics, light empowered native CPU. When to expect in laptop

[jdsguam]

I'm stuck with just 25Mbps where I live and that still costs me about $100.

[Akronymus_]

The distributed across the world wouldn't actually work. As light lag becomes pretty significant. Sure it will be faster, but not so much, that it even makes sense to separate the components across different racks, even.

[havennewbowtow]

Anyone else get the vibe that we are laying the foundation of our own destruction. AI is a very scary step, access to this type of technology only makes it more scary.

[FarranLee]

I feel like this kind of speed is going to bring computing devices up to the level of "real" objects; I mean, computing devices are the only thing in our daily lives that are not instantaneous. Everything else just *is* ready already. A cup is already ready to hold water, water is already ready to hydrate your body, a desk is already ready to put stuff on: the potential of items already exists within them. Computers have to load stuff and it's training my patience but when so much of our daily lives requires computer interaction, I don't want to train my patience, I just want to do my tasks, get off the computer and touch some grass. It would be so refreshing to just *use* a device for a task, do the task *now*, then finish and close the device. It would "get out of the way" properly.

I've often wondered why internal devices don't use light. Well seems like it's coming!
I'm kinda imagining tech that looks like it's built of crystals. It might even be like that eventually, albeit probably synthetic crystal. In my simplistic understanding of material physics, a crystal's structure is aligned enough to transmit light predictably linearly, yet also is reasonably dielectric. Perhaps we'll have nanometre-thin layers of crystal and metal. Or maybe we can grow crystals in specific architectures that channel/reflect light around in such a way that they form logic gates and algorithm paths. Maybe we'll find that certain crystal types already contain certain logic and algorithm patterns.
I think the custom crystal architecture could be feasible. Imagine crystal cpu modules for AND OR XOR NOT etc and whatever kinds of instructions exist in cpu instruction sets. Then you bunch them all together inside a CPU chip.

Ohhhh what if crystal growth can be guided by electronic fields, and a neural network training system produces such a field, and then that causes crystalline growth of a crystal chip? Then you would have a literal crystal brain on a chip.


I had a less fantastical idea to write here but got carried away with crystals so no idea what that was now, never mind 😁

[KyleRuggles]

Not bad at all. :) Hope it hits poorer countries.

[djmcnamer]

A good chance computers will be obsolete anyway in the future..

[trumanhw]

will never happen.
also, EACH fiber modules adds more latency than a DAC.