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New Data Transmission Record — 14 Tbps
deejne writes to alert us to a new bandwidth record: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone has announced data transmission at a rate of 14 terabits per second over a single optical fiber. The paper claims the previous record was "about 10 Tbps." In the new experiment, NTT sent data over 160 kilometers (nearly 100 miles) of optical fiber, in 140 channels of 111 Gbps each.
And still nothing worth watching.
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I thought it meant 14 ThePirateBays per second...
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That's still nothing compared to a semi loaded with DVDs traveling at 70mph.
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and yet I'm still downloading at a measly 300 kbs.
Good thing I didn't buy that eSATA card I was looking at today. 3Gb/second? What a piece of crap!
This is the internet, not the interstate.
God spoke to me.
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Well, I remember back on my 14.4 modem... those text pages loaded like the wind. I was on top of the world... Then those damned pictures started cropping up on websites. Pictures on the internet? Ha! Then came the 56.6k modem which showed those pictures who were boss. No problems. Oh wait, online gaming? File sharing ? Cable and DSL save the day. More than adequate
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I beg to differ. I have [cough] friends that download movi^H^H^H^H^H content from the internet, and some dvd rips^H^H^H^H^H^H^H database files can be larger than 4GB! Even at a good (cheap) DSL line of 1KBPS it still takes quite alot longer to download content than it would take to go to blockbuster^H^H^H^H^H^H^H the office and pick up physical media with the data on it.
Blessed are the pessimists, for they have made backups. -- 0 1 My two bits
Consider a cargo ship loaded with a thousand cargo containers full of bootleg DVDs. Assume each container cah hold about 200,000 DVDs. Assume it takes a month to steam from Korea to LA or Seattle. That's 9.4GB/DVD x 200,000,000 DVDs / 2,592,000 seconds = 725 GB/sec, or only about 1/20 of the bandwidth of this optical fiber.
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This new technology could really be a boon to the bootlegging business!!!
How many DVD movies per second was this?
Also, they failed to provide a conversion from terabyte to Libraries of Congress.
where did they get all those Terabytes to send?
I'm pretty sure somewhere like that gets them directly from the manufacturer.
One of the russian computer trading companies easily topped that. The box with 20 400GB HDDs fell from the shelf 2m high. Total data transmission rate was
20*4*10^11*8/sqrt(2*2/9.8)~=10^14 bps or 100 Tbps
As you see if you have enough money to burn you may easily scale that number.
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1KBPS? How cheap _IS_ your DSL line?
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
African or European hard drives?
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan
20 GOTO 10
I once threw a box of 120 Gig tapes into a dumpster. I think there were about 200 tapes in the box.
I admit the distance wasn't far, but the burst rate was 24 TBytes/sec.
It's a shame to see Linux still hasn't managed to implement a functioning "Delete" key.
Someday our kids will look back at us and wonder how the hell we surfed porn so slow.
Ignore this signature. By order.
...you can watch it much faster!!!
The view was horrible and the smell was even worse; Julie severely regretted becoming a proctologist.