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.
Re:Wow. (Score:4, Informative)
You could use up your monthly bit-cap in about five seconds... USA! USA! USA!
I dunno, I'd be pretty happy with a 655360 gigabyte bit-cap if it'd take 5 whole seconds to chew it up at this speed.