With such component, one can reach 160Gbits/s, or 20GB/s. IBM plans to quickly initiate the production of this component, which should not be particularly expensive, and provide exciting capabilities for our internet connection. If one can already get 100Mbits/s when connected to a optical fiber-network, we can already dream of much higher data speed transfer, once such component will have been added to the ISP sever and in the consumer fiber modem/router. In other words, such gain could be reached with the already installed fiber networks.
Of course, with such network data transfer speed, one will have to make a second revolution, for our HDs, we will have to dramatically improve access time and write/read speed, otherwise the new bottleneck will be our storage units.
