stopthatgirl7 to Technology • 11 months agoJapanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cableswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1655arrow-down13file-text
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minus-squaresnooggumslinkfedilink5•11 months agoIt is pretty confusing that we refer to the volume of data as speed in networks.
minus-square@the_tab_keylinkEnglish16•11 months agoWe don’t. The measure is bits/s, which is a speed because it’s measured relative to time. 1 TB is a volume/amount, 1TB/s is a speed.
It is pretty confusing that we refer to the volume of data as speed in networks.
We don’t. The measure is bits/s, which is a speed because it’s measured relative to time. 1 TB is a volume/amount, 1TB/s is a speed.