Any update or news on the situation for those of us in albany in the 900 blocks off Marin????
Getting ready for the data firehose .....
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| 661Tbps Through a Single Optical Fiber: The Mind Boggles |
| from the I-have-1Mbps dept. |
| posted by mrpg on Saturday August 04, @12:25 (Science) |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/08/03/225233 |
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[0]MrPlow writes:
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:
[1]https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08 ... d-boggles/
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