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2.56 Tb/s Transmission Record

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. And what then? by Saib0t · · 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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  2. To where? by SpinyNorman · · 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.

  3. Engineer wanted by dstone · · 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.

  4. Transmission Record by Alsee · · 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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