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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. 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?