The latest attacks on Spamhaus saw speeds hundreds of times that, at 300 billion bits per second, or 300 Gbps.
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Thanks to an engineer's trick called "wave division multiplexing, " a single fiber-optic thread can carry upwards of 10 trillion bits per second.
Cable modems that shuffle 3 million bits per second will be given away like plastic dog whistles in boxes of Froot Loops.
Which, since video consumes more bits per second than just about anything, is of course great news for companies that make networking gear.
It is called "gigabit Ethernet, " and is able to send data at one billion bits per second, over twenty times faster than a T3 line.
These boxes took in low-speed, asynchronous data from the field and packed it into high-speed (9600 bits per second, it seems quaint now) synchronous trunks.
Sprint runs much of its backbone at a blinding 2.5 billion bits per second--but at the public access point it oversees, it offers just 45 million bits.
In his July 1999 Gilder Technology Report, George writes that Lucent already possesses the know-how to cram 864 fiber-optic strands, each carrying 5 trillion bits per second, into one cable sheath.
That's 1.6 trillion bits per second, or enough capacity to let 28 million people all surf the Web at current modem speeds--on a single glass strand no thicker than a human hair.
Dai and the Sutardjas next went after networking products, designing a chip that would transmit data through Ethernet ports at a billion bits per second, ten times the speed of the then current standard.
The current Iridium constellation has a stated operational life of just five years, more than one of which is already gone, but Motorola did have plans to extend the system's life, and eventually replace the satellites with models capable of handling data rates above 4800 bits per second.
The "Mona Lisa" experiment was transmitted at a slow data rate of about 300 bits per second, but the "pathfinding achievement sets the stage for ... high data rate laser-communication demonstrations that will be a central feature of NASA's next moon mission, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, " said Goddard's Richard Vondrak, the orbiter's deputy project scientist.
Our conscious brains can only handle something like 40 bits of information a second, while our unconscious minds can handle 11 million bits of information per second.
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Today, optical fibers can transport 10 billion bits of data per second on a single wavelength.
Algorithms certainly handle millions of bits of data per second every day during securities trading.
As measured by pure bits-per-second, Michael, at his peak, processed more information than anyone else.
Your unconscious mind, which is far bigger, handles something like 11 million bits of information per second.
That sounds like a lot until you know that our unconscious minds can handle 11 million bits of information per second.
At their peak, the attacks were flooding the sites with more than a billion bits of data per second, according to Paul Laudanski, the founder of CastleCops, one of the victims.
George said to get ready for a trillion-bits-per-second world.
The Toughbook also has a 56K-bps (bits-per-second) internal modem.
Current "muxes" typically can push up to 100 light waves down a single fiber, but by year-end Nortel will begin shipping test gear that pushes 160 lightwaves, each carrying 10 billion bits of data per second.
The delivery would need a trillion bits, a terabit, per second.
Imagine having 2 million to 3 million bits (and soon thereafter billions) per second for your PC, instead of the sorry 50, 000-or-so bits most folks cope with today.
The closely held company developed such chips to sell in transceivers with four data channels that each can transmit 10 billion bits of data a second or 40 gigabits total per second and claims cost and technical advantages over 40-gigabit optical devices built using conventional materials.
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