2.56 Tb/s Transmission Record

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2.56 Tb/s Transmission Record

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday March 23, 2002 @03:35AM from the bring-it-on-and-other-movies-at-the-same-time dept.

RalfM writes "2.56 terabits of data per second in new transmission record by Bell Labs, Lucent's research arm." So this thing could transmit my entire mp3 collection in under a half second.

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And what then? by Saib0t · 2002-03-23 03:40 · Score: 5, Funny

So this thing could transmit my entire mp3 collection in under a half second.

Good, and then you'll have to wait 4 hours for your HDD to write them ;-).

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Re:what a fat pipe by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-23 03:47 · Score: 2, Funny

but no seriously can anybody think of a practical use for a tb/sec connection?

pr0n. lots and lots of pr0n.
Ping by Kizzle · 2002-03-23 03:54 · Score: 3, Funny

Maybee I can finaly get a good ping in quake now.

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To where? by SpinyNorman · 2002-03-23 03:58 · Score: 4, Funny

So this thing could transmit my entire mp3 collection in under a half second.

Sure, and unless you have a storage device that can accept data at that speed, the only place your MP3s are going is /dev/null, so you may as well save the net bandwidth and use the mv command.
well now I am torn by glwtta · 2002-03-23 04:01 · Score: 3, Funny

Is it a Beowulf cluster of these that I want to imagine, or do I want to go for the usual "that's a whole lot of pr0n!" comment?
being trite and obvious has never been harder...

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Re:Unfortunately it would still take 10 minutes.. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-23 04:05 · Score: 2, Funny

This may come as a shock to you, but resizing a 400x300 picture to 400000000x300000000 does not result in a more detailed picture.
Engineer wanted by dstone · 2002-03-23 05:01 · Score: 4, Funny

So this thing could transmit my entire mp3 collection in under a half second.

Engineer wanted for creation of 2.56Tb/s DRM system. Must be able to scan for copyright flags in data stream and deny transfer permission.
Transmission Record by Alsee · 2002-03-23 06:17 · Score: 4, Funny

And in related news:
These same engineers hope to set a new 1.00 Tb/s reception record later today.

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