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Physicists Set New Record For Massive Data Transfer Speed

Posted November 25, 2012 4:43 PM

From DVICE:

The amount of data we're talking about is big. A team of high-energy physicists led by those at the California Institute of Technology reached a transfer rate of 339 gigabits per second (Gbps). That is the equivalent of moving four million gigabytes or one million full-length movies per day.

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11/25/2012 11:47 PM

YES! Kudos for them.

What I knew for many decades, that the single mode fibre is absolutely no limit to transmission speed. The electronic excitation is the limiting factor. Lasers etc.
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11/26/2012 6:29 AM

Definitely faster than my internet access.
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11/26/2012 9:27 AM

So how exactly are they generating encoding and then decoding and breaking down that amount of raw data and keeping everything properly sorted out and intact start to finish?
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