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posted by mrpg on Saturday August 04 2018, @12:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-have-1Mbps dept.

Submitted via IRC for BoyceMagooglyMonkey

Society has an insatiable desire for data. In fact, it is rather astonishing to think that average Internet traffic is several hundred terabits per second and consumes about eight percent of our electricity production. All of that for instant cat videos—and our desire for new cat videos is apparently insatiable, driving the need for more capacity and even more energy.

[...] The fiber that transported the signal consists of 30 light-guiding cores, surrounded by a single cladding. That means that each core is capable of transporting data at a rate of 25Tbps, bringing us to a grand total of 768Tbps. That, however, is the raw data rate. Data is always transmitted with some redundancy to allow for errors to be corrected, called forward error correction. Once redundancy is accounted for, the net data transfer rate is 661Tbps.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/661tbits-through-a-single-optical-fiber-the-mind-boggles/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @01:24PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @01:24PM (#717191)

    Fazter fazter fazter! Me needz morez cat videoz to prove Douglas Adams waz wrong. It'z not the mices, it da catz.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @01:28PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04 2018, @01:28PM (#717192)

    Porn. We need to prove that Avenue Q was right.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday August 04 2018, @01:56PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 04 2018, @01:56PM (#717201) Journal

      Porn. We need to prove that Avenue Q was right.

      No proof is necessary. That's as clear as the principles of thermodynamics, a law of nature.

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