2.56 Tb/s Transmission Record

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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Re:what a fat pipe

[Emugamer]

okay so now you put up the challenge I had to go looking.. damn you

1/2 serious 1/2 not so serious post here...

Lets imagine the population of new york which is a tad less then 19 million. now lets give each of them a phone.
given the assumption that no more then 35% are on their phones at any given peak time we have 6.65 million pone conversations going on. Now lets assume that of these phone calls no more then 40% are inter-city phone calls which would use this type of pipe.

2.66 million calls now.

Now lets say that compression algorithims bring the average phone call bandwidth to say 20Kbit/s

quick math leads that to 53 Gb/s so all of New York uses for voice communications on a high end is 2% of this pipe.

so now we have 98% left to fill

Ive heard that an *average* (this puts us in the minority) computer user on an internet connection will use 40kbit on average during a session with the net. and with that number on average there could be 64 million people using that line (which seems high to me) but I can't find any statistics to backup that 40kbit estimate at this time.

So here of course are the lame responses:

one script kiddie with an Outlook "add-on", a remote exploit he downloaded somewhere and to much time on his hands

One large dorm full of p2p, porn, warez hungry students

one slashdot reader who wants to test to see if this article is true.