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NTT and Partners Show 1 Petabit/Sec Transfer Over 50km of Fiber

Posted by timothy on from the wake-me-up-when-it's-petabytes-instead dept.

symbolset writes "NTT and some partners, in a late paper to the ECOC 2012, show a successful transmission of 1 petabit per second data transfer over a 12-core optical fiber 52.4 km long." How long that transfer speed would take to transfer one Library of Congress's worth of data all depends on who you ask.

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  1. LoC per second is just bandwidth by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

    To be a true measure, you need latency as well. After all, you can't really play a decent MMORG if the latency is through the roof.

    As two dimensional values confuse people, I suggest dividing the bandwidth by the delays in getting it, giving you Libraries of Congress per second per fillibuster.

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  2. Wow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's some really fast porn.

  3. Re:NSA data gathering capability by CrashandDie · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some would argue that not wanting to be "average" is being average.