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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?

  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!

    --
    Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
    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.

  4. 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.