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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. Re:Terabyte? by Peyna · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tera is a prefix meaning one trillion (10^12), in this case it refers to one trillion bits (not bytes).

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    What?
  2. Re:Bandwith problems? by chill · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, 'cause the LambdaXtreme unit used is unbelievably expensive, and you need at least 2 of them.

    Also, you need EBDA single-mode fiber, which isn't the majority in the ground.

    Soon, though.

    Charles E. Hill
    Core Network Engineer
    Lucent Worldwide Services

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    Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.