This gives a total capacity of 1, 600 gigabits, or 1.6 terabits (a terabit is a thousand gigabits), per second.

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To deliver the same show in high def would require 100 terabits.

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After all, they can handle up to 322 terabits of data per second, which is more data traffic than most of the world has ever seen.

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Mike Marcellin, vice president of product marketing and strategy, said the architecture will be capable of moving 3800 terabits a second over the network.

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Of the two labs, Fujitsu achieved the fastest transmission rate of 1.1 terabits per second, which were sent 150 kilometers over a single strand of optical fiber.

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Wherever the stock market may journey, U.S. output of silicon logic gates, lines of software code, terabits of Web traffic and base pairs of genes sequenced is going to keep right on growing.

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The reason that the Navy Marine Corps Intranet has been impervious to intrusions while criminals were stealing terabits of information from other military networks is that it is managed as a single end-to-end system by one well-equipped company.

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Ting Xu, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and Thomas Russell, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, have created a technique that could, theoretically, pack a disk the size of a quarter with 10.5 terabits (more than 10 trillion bits) of data, the equivalent of 250 DVDs.

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On Monday, Cisco announced the development of the Nexus 7000, a network switch that's capable of routing 15 terabits of data per second--the equivalent of moving the entire contents of Wikipedia in a hundredth of a second, or downloading every movie available on Netflix (nasdaq: NFLX - news - people ) in about 40 seconds.

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