Graphene Antennas Would Enable Terabit Wireless Downloads

I find claims of such to be somewhat questionable. Even if we could enable Terabit speeds over wireless it does not good if the hardware receiving it is incapable of handling that much data in that short of time. I mean we get max hard drive write speeds of 3.0 GB/s for the average user. Ram and CPU are still on the order of Ghz. We may be able to cram that much in the air but it does no good if the computers can't handle it.

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Post by ktsmith » Tue, Mar 05, 2013, 8:29 PM UTC

short_circut wrote: post #4

I find claims of such to be somewhat questionable. Even if we could enable Terabit speeds over wireless it does not good if the hardware receiving it is incapable of handling that much data in that short of time. I mean we get max hard drive write speeds of 3.0 GB/s for the average user. Ram and CPU are still on the order of Ghz. We may be able to cram that much in the air but it does no good if the computers can't h…

So should these researchers sit on their hands until such time as hardware capable of utilizing those transfer rates exist? The mathematical modeling here is at the very least useful in determining this is a path worth exploring with prototypes.

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Post by freehunter » Tue, Mar 05, 2013, 8:30 PM UTC

short_circut wrote: post #4

I find claims of such to be somewhat questionable. Even if we could enable Terabit speeds over wireless it does not good if the hardware receiving it is incapable of handling that much data in that short of time. I mean we get max hard drive write speeds of 3.0 GB/s for the average user. Ram and CPU are still on the order of Ghz. We may be able to cram that much in the air but it does no good if the computers can't h…

It's a fair point. It's the same bottlenecking issue that plagues mobile devices. We can make multi-core and multi-ghz processors with giant, bright, high resolution displays, but we're having a hard time getting battery technology to keep up with this immense power draw.

The good news is, with these restraints being placed on improvements in technology, it gives incentive to further invest in research to making better batteries or faster storage devices.

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Post by S_A_P » Tue, Mar 05, 2013, 8:46 PM UTC

landypro wrote: post #3

Now we need a storage medium capable of supporting those transfer speeds.

Im sure graphene will be involved with that too ;)

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Post by zwieback » Tue, Mar 05, 2013, 8:53 PM UTC

Make it a fractal graphene antenna and you've got next years funding locked up!

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Post by joe_the_user » Tue, Mar 05, 2013, 9:05 PM UTC

short_circut wrote: post #4

I find claims of such to be somewhat questionable. Even if we could enable Terabit speeds over wireless it does not good if the hardware receiving it is incapable of handling that much data in that short of time. I mean we get max hard drive write speeds of 3.0 GB/s for the average user. Ram and CPU are still on the order of Ghz. We may be able to cram that much in the air but it does no good if the computers can't h…

It may be that kind of rate would wind-up only being useful within a chip or between closely spaced chips.

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Post by jacquesm » Tue, Mar 05, 2013, 9:10 PM UTC

Graphene is quickly acquiring buzz-word status.