New Data Transmission Speed Record

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday March 25, 2006 @06:32PM from the sixty-dvd-minus dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Gizmag is reporting that a team of German and Japanese scientists have collaborated to shatter the world record for data transmission speed. From the article: "By transmitting a data signal at 2.56 terabits per second over a 160-kilometer link (equivalent to 2,560,000,000,000 bits per second or the contents of 60 DVDs) the researchers bettered the old record of 1.28 terabits per second held by a Japanese group. By comparison, the fastest high-speed links currently carry data at a maximum 40 Gbit/s, or around 50 times slower."

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Re:Digg Loses by ZachPruckowski · 2006-03-25 19:09 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Yes, but when I read both Slashdot and Digg, I only have to look at one /. page, but having looked at the front two pages of Digg a couple of times the last two days, I totally missed that story. Digg may have a lot of these stories first, but sometimes they don't stay on your front page. I have to do that diggall thing, and sort through lots of crap to get to the new stories.