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New Data Transmission Record — 14 Tbps

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-140-hi-def-movies dept.

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.

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  1. 140 channels of 111 Gbps each by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And still nothing worth watching.

  2. Preparing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    vista.windowsupdate.com?

  3. Misread title by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought it meant 14 ThePirateBays per second...

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    1. Re:Misread title by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Insightful

      A link that fast wouldn't help you. There isn't enough seed bandwidth on TPB to give you 14Tbits/sec, nor is there the backbone bandwidth. And you'd need a hell of a RAID subsystem to manage handle writing at 14Tbits/sec sustained.

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  4. land speed record by tverbeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's still nothing compared to a semi loaded with DVDs traveling at 70mph.

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  5. Ha! That is nothing! by Tamerlan · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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