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:Terabits per second!? by onwardknave · 2006-03-25 18:51 · Score: 5, Funny

A measurement everyone understands? Like how much porn?
60 DVD:s per second... by MadTinfoilHatter · 2006-03-25 20:22 · Score: 5, Funny

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