Japan achieves staggering 402 Tb/s data rate with commercial optical fiber — record-breaking performance tapped into unused wavelength bands
Japan achieves staggering 402 Tb/s data rate with commercial optical fiber — record-breaking performance tapped into unused wavelength bands
New record shows potential high data throughput with no upgrade for current fiber optic infrastructure
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New record shows potential high data throughput with no upgrade for current fiber optic infrastructure
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When you need to download every show on Netflix, but don’t have much time
14 1 Reply3.14 petabytes in the whole Netflix catalog
x 1000 converts to TB
/ 402 TB per second
= 7.81 seconds
EDIT oh this is Tb, not TB, so
x 8 to convert bit to Byte
= 62.5 seconds
16 0 Reply62.5s?! Too slow
14 0 ReplyNow find a disk that can keep up with those write speeds.
10 0 ReplyYou would use a large cluster of servers all stuffed full of enterprise grade SSDs if you need that kind of write speed.
11 0 ReplyBut my Lord, there is no such force.
4 0 ReplyNot enough RAID? Insert more RAID!
2 0 Reply