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New Data Transmission Speed Record

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. 2.56 Terabits = ? by mattydont · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anti-Slashdoting for a webhost.

  2. Terabits per second!? by SillySnake · · Score: 4, Funny

    What kind of measurement is that? Why can't we use something everyone understands like u-haul trucks full of dvd's driving 100 kilometers per fortnight*10^(-6)?
    For the uninitiated, that's a microfortnight.

    1. Re:Terabits per second!? by onwardknave · · Score: 5, Funny

      A measurement everyone understands? Like how much porn?

    2. Re:Terabits per second!? by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Funny
      A measurement everyone understands? Like how much porn?

      Well, they did say 60 DVDs. So depending on your proclivities, that's ... what ...

      18 hours of phone sex ads + 720 'standard' sex scenes

      180,000 pop shots on compilation

      240 hours of midget porn

      6,000 discrete pee sequences

      No less than 100 gang-bang sequences

      500 bukkakke events

      600 different MILFs

      1 million or so jpeg images

      I mean, these are known measures. ;-)
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  3. 60 DVDs per second by craXORjack · · Score: 4, Funny
    (equivalent to 2,560,000,000,000 bits per second or the contents of 60 DVDs)

    Wow, converting to MPAA units that's 300 years of jail time per second! Smokin!

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    1. Re:60 DVDs per second by bedroll · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, no, no... It's $37,500,000 per second. ($125,000 per infringement)

      Remember that the MPAA thinks in dollars.

    2. Re:60 DVDs per second by noidentity · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Wow, converting to MPAA units that's 300 years of jail time per second! Smokin!"

      Hmmm, I sense the possibility of time travel hidden in there somewhere.

  4. And so it begins by Darby · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well folks, time to gear up.

    We know what happens when the Germans and the Japanese collaborate ;-)

    1. Re:And so it begins by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Funny
      Well folks, time to gear up.

      We know what happens when the Germans and the Japanese collaborate ;-)

      Yeah, breaded and deep fried sushi, dark beer in small cups, and Teryaki sausages, LOTS of cabbage, and bubble-tea streusel.

      Oh, the humanity of it all.
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  5. A 160-kilometer link? by __aawfbm2023 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Equivalent to 160,000 metres and 160,000,000 millimetres!

  6. Re:So, that's OC-What? by heinousjay · · Score: 3, Funny

    Three different answers for what boils down to a grade school story problem. At least we know you three didn't cheat from each other.

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  7. 60 DVD:s per second... by MadTinfoilHatter · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and in related news, the spokesman for the MPAA is currently unable to comment due to suffering a heart attack.

  8. Re:That's pretty slow by Beryllium+Sphere(tm) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The 11,520,000 ms ping times also might interfere with some applications.

  9. Re:That's pretty slow by Kjella · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where's the moderation for "+5 for extreme nerdiness, minus several million because you really should get out more"? /says someone who's closing in on 4000 posts to slashdot...

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