This will blow your mind.
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that was wild!
buckytom
Grill Master
what i got from that was people like to illegally download songs while having sex in india and china.
don't let it scare you. they blew their whole premise when they added the bit about the info from a week of new york times. that shows that we were relative neanderthals, informationally/educationally speaking, just a century or two ago, but we've been able to keep up the pace of knowledge as it grows without much effort; maybe less.
don't let it scare you. they blew their whole premise when they added the bit about the info from a week of new york times. that shows that we were relative neanderthals, informationally/educationally speaking, just a century or two ago, but we've been able to keep up the pace of knowledge as it grows without much effort; maybe less.
TexasGirl
The Invisible
Fisher's Mom
Mother Superior
Well, who doesn't?
Too funny BT. Especially the part about the NY Times. LOL
Keltin
New member
The bit about a fiber cable sending 14 trillion bits of data per second is rather outdated. 14 trillion = 14 Gigabits. Standard fiber optic cables that I work with every day for our GPON unit is 10 Gigabit (10 trillion).
Global Crossing just unveiled a 2.5 Terabit cable they will be laying to connect Europe, the US, and Asia. That’s that 2.5 Quadrillion bits per second which is 157 times faster than the 14 trillion bps cable the video mentioned.
Bell Labs has analyzed telecom protocols and fiber transmissions and estimates it is possible to send up to 100 terabits (100 quadrillion bits) of data with current fiber technology. The big thing holding us back is developing the receivers that can catch that data, demux it, and then process it.
Besides that, it’s not total bandwidth that is the ultimate problem, its the length of the fiber. The longer the fiber, the more the dispersion. GPON standard is 20 km of fiber, but our units are currently perfecting going 30km differentially. And we have plans to use new optics to push that to 40km. So in the end, it’s not the speed that is important, it’s how far can you push it. The bandwidth is pretty much a given, but delivering it over long runs from CO to NID is the real interesting item.
That vid says there are 540,000 words in the English language now. Yeah….with the additions of ain’t, gonna, pwn, lollergasm, etc, I can see that.
And they say 4 exabytes of unique data will be generated this year. That is 4 sextillion bytes of data. Which includes all of our posts here, twits, facebook entries, Instant Messages, online bill pay, email, streaming video, and text messages of “snd me nkd pics” and “u r hawt!”.
I’m wondering what the ultimate point of the vid was. Other than showing that India and China need to invest in condoms, I’m not picking up on the real vibe????
Global Crossing just unveiled a 2.5 Terabit cable they will be laying to connect Europe, the US, and Asia. That’s that 2.5 Quadrillion bits per second which is 157 times faster than the 14 trillion bps cable the video mentioned.
Bell Labs has analyzed telecom protocols and fiber transmissions and estimates it is possible to send up to 100 terabits (100 quadrillion bits) of data with current fiber technology. The big thing holding us back is developing the receivers that can catch that data, demux it, and then process it.
Besides that, it’s not total bandwidth that is the ultimate problem, its the length of the fiber. The longer the fiber, the more the dispersion. GPON standard is 20 km of fiber, but our units are currently perfecting going 30km differentially. And we have plans to use new optics to push that to 40km. So in the end, it’s not the speed that is important, it’s how far can you push it. The bandwidth is pretty much a given, but delivering it over long runs from CO to NID is the real interesting item.
That vid says there are 540,000 words in the English language now. Yeah….with the additions of ain’t, gonna, pwn, lollergasm, etc, I can see that.
And they say 4 exabytes of unique data will be generated this year. That is 4 sextillion bytes of data. Which includes all of our posts here, twits, facebook entries, Instant Messages, online bill pay, email, streaming video, and text messages of “snd me nkd pics” and “u r hawt!”.
I’m wondering what the ultimate point of the vid was. Other than showing that India and China need to invest in condoms, I’m not picking up on the real vibe????
vyapti
New member
And they say 4 exabytes of unique data will be generated this year. That is 4 sextillion bytes of data. Which includes all of our posts here, twits, facebook entries, Instant Messages, online bill pay, email, streaming video, and text messages of “snd me nkd pics” and “u r hawt!”.
I warn my kids about the dangers of sextillioning.
Fisher's Mom
Mother Superior
That's a good idea, vyapti. I wish my parents had warned me.