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The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the big-data highway

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Re: The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the big-data highway

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Actually, it generates 5.2T B /sec. "Its antennas are now churning out 5.2 terabytes of data per second"

Either case, I doubt it is "15% of the internets current data rate" as they claim. E.g. the newish submarine cable between the US and Japan has 60 Tb capacity. And that's just one cable.

Re: The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the big-data highway

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post #9
post #4

Actually, it generates 5.2T B /sec. "Its antennas are now churning out 5.2 terabytes of data per second"

Either case, I doubt it is "15% of the internets current data rate" as they claim. E.g. the newish submarine cable between the US and Japan has 60 Tb capacity. And that's just one cable.

A large chunk of that capacity will be for private use, not for the capital-I Internet. 280Tbps is about right for interdomain Internet traffic, it lines up with Cisco's predictions/measurements: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-pr...
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