10/28/2005

Japanese company claims fibre-optic data transfer record
APP: ….developed technology to transmit a two-hour movie in 0.5 seconds, the world’s fastest speed achieved with fibre-optic cables in the field….Kansai Electric used fibre-optic cables on power-transmitting steel towers to achieve the speed of one terabit per second, which is more than 100 times faster than inter-city data transmissions currently in use…

Japan Factiod: More than 95% of Japanese households right now have fiber-to-the-curb capability.

Kansai Electric is Japan’s second largest electric company based out of Osaka. The fact that they can use use existing infrastructure of their power-transmition network to deliver realtime movies on demand is amazing…and LONG-awaited. I worked on the world’s first video-on-demand via Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) in Orlando Florida for Maybe-the-Largest-in-Japan Inc. and that was nothing but heartaches. It worked but each set-top box which had to be provided for less than $100…but actually it cost us $5,000 to implement. Needless to say, I’m no longer working on that doomed project.

From what I have been told by my friends working in Kansai Electric, this implementation is only costing $200 per household—Hot damn, maybe I ought to buy shares in Kansai Electric’s shares of common stock [No way Jose’].