Researchers from Fermilab and Caltech successfully tested a new ultrafast data transfer connection from the Office of Science of the Department of Energy. The new DOE UltraScience Net, which can reach speeds of 20 Gigabits per second, achieved an average rate of 7 Gigabits per second during a trial run. Wow.
I know movies are usually about 8 gigabits (1 Gigabyte) in size, which would take one second to download on this web. I imagine higher definition standards will boost the video file sizes. I just wonder how big the average file will be 5 years from now. Will we have files larger than a Terabyte? Will we have access to download speeds like 20 Gigabits per second?
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