650MB*15 per sec = 9750MBps = 9.52GBps (Mbytes) (MBytes) (GBytes)
... yeah, but 9.52GBps does not equal 9.52Gbps (GigaBytes) (Gigabits)
The original poster is correct, somebody is fibbing at Lucent. To transfter 1 MB at 1 Mbps, it would take 8 seconds to transfer.
This is all due to communications using standards in "bits per second" (see: Old Hayes Modems) with PC's use of bytes (see: To sell more computers, PC makers say RAM is 64 MB when it's really 64 Mb).
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650MB*15 per sec = 9750MBps = 9.52GBps
(Mbytes) (MBytes) (GBytes)
... yeah, but 9.52GBps does not equal 9.52Gbps
(GigaBytes) (Gigabits)
The original poster is correct, somebody is fibbing at Lucent. To transfter 1 MB at 1 Mbps, it would take 8 seconds to transfer.
This is all due to communications using standards in "bits per second" (see: Old Hayes Modems) with
PC's use of bytes (see: To sell more computers, PC makers say RAM is 64 MB when it's really 64 Mb).
Rick