NTT and Partners Show 1 Petabit/Sec Transfer Over 50km of Fiber 59
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.
LoC per second is just bandwidth (Score:5, 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.
Wow. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:NSA data gathering capability (Score:3, Funny)
Some would argue that not wanting to be "average" is being average.