3D Holo TV Closer as Verizon Tests 10 gbps Internet
Verizon predicted recently that 3D Hologram TV would be in homes by 2020. There was one caveat. Broadband networks would have to be powered up to handle data transfers at 1 gbps before it could become a reality. This week Verizon announced that it has been successfully testing broadband speeds of 10 times that number.
The team tested the continuous transfer of 2 gigabyte files from 20 concurrent clients using a commercial Web-server application. The files were transferred both upstream and downstream, simulating what a business customer would experience when 20 employees are performing concurrent file transfers to and from remote locations. This test demonstrated an application layer throughput of 9.1Gbps, upstream and downstream. As part of the test, a 2.3 gigabyte movie took an average of just four seconds to download or upload and save to the computers. These download and upload speeds are close to 60 times faster than the maximum speeds capable with cable’s DOCSIS 3.0 technology and more than twenty thousand times faster than the average cable subscriber would experience. An additional test was done to transfer a 6.9 gigabyte medical image file in 11 seconds, demonstrating the potential time and cost savings available on an XG-PON network as collaborative medical work environments continue to evolve.