BF2S Forums Superfast internet may replace world wide web!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Agreed, for now. The best we can hope for is to build on the current infrastructure by simply replacing old wires with Fibre Optics so that we can at least reach South Korea-esque speeds. As for a new architecture, it's still a long way off. But it'll come eventually.

One of the reasons the internet was so successful was because it could be built upon the current telephone networks which were around since the 19th Century

Fuck yeah Switzerland

I know that this is Everything Else, but that article is just so full of bullshit, it's unbelievable. Firstly, CERN did not create the Internet. Secondly, everything listed as suddenly being possible is limited solely by network throughput of a magnitude that the Internet can easily handle. Why? Because

The grid has been built with fiber optic cables and modern routing centres, meaning there are no outdated components to slow the deluge of data

is exactly what the Internet is. The Internet consists of networks connected together, most of them featuring exactly what's described. If this network was routed out publicly and bought transit from another network, guess what it'd be? Part of the Internet.

It's hard to tell what that article is talking about. The author seems to make a big deal out of it being "10,000 times faster than broadband connections.", and that it could "make the Internet obsolete". Guess what? It also costs 10,000 times more than "broadband connections", and that sort of throughput is available through publicly routed Internet networks as it is today. The people quoted in the article seem to be talking about processing power, which is more understandable, but nothing even remotely new. It has been done for decades. In the end, the only difference between a huge data centre and this is that this is geographically disparate and connected via a closed network.

What retarded journalism.

Last edited by mikkel (2008-04-07 09:39:39)

RDMC wrote:

dayarath wrote:

Image FPS games with 10.000 players in a field.

fuk yes?

'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Medic!'
'Medic!'
'Medic!'
'Medic!'
'Medic!'
'Medic!'

'Theres a problem with your connection'.

Funny at first, but yeah, that would probably get annoying quickly (if BF2 was adapted for 10K players, they'd probably have to make it that you would only "hear" people in a radius of x around you).

But just think about it - you could actually have a REAL war with 10K people! However, our poor PC's would be suffering from the computing power needed to generate all that graphics and vehicles, etc.

Man, I can't wait for the next few big upgrades to computers, whenever they come, that make a maxxed out, overclocked, top of the line PC playing Crysis look like Pong on the Atari.

commandochristian wrote:

RDMC wrote:

dayarath wrote:

Image FPS games with 10.000 players in a field.

fuk yes?

'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Frag Out!'
'Medic!'
'Medic!'
'Medic!'
'Medic!'
'Medic!'
'Medic!'

'Theres a problem with your connection'.

Funny at first, but yeah, that would probably get annoying quickly (if BF2 was adapted for 10K players, they'd probably have to make it that you would only "hear" people in a radius of x around you).

But just think about it - you could actually have a REAL war with 10K people! However, our poor PC's would be suffering from the computing power needed to generate all that graphics and vehicles, etc.

Man, I can't wait for the next few big upgrades to computers, whenever they come, that make a maxxed out, overclocked, top of the line PC playing Crysis look like Pong on the Atari.

give it 10-20 years.

OMFG did they just switch skynet on....

This requires fibre to doorstep, ole copper Britain is still fucked.