Agreed.
I just wanted to start simple to explain just how fast 2.5 Gb really is.
The simple rule of thumb is (again, roughly speaking):
Divide Gb (the small "b" is bits, and large B, like "GB" is bytes) by 10 and that is the same as character/sec.
One character is either a small or capital letter, number, special character, etc. Essentially, anything on a keyboard (and then some other character that are not visible, like "enter", "tab", etc.)
So...
If a Webster's dictionary is 10 million characters, then:
1) at 10 Mb/sec: it takes 10 secs to move from point A to B
2) at 100 Mb/sec: it takes 1 sec to move from point A to B
3) at 1 Gb/sec: it takes .1 secs to move from point A to B
4) at 10 Gb/sec: it takes .01 secs to move from point A to B
After gigabits/sec, there comes terabit/sec. After terabit/sec comes picobits/sec.
Some of the advanced MEMS optics that LU recently announced (and we hope JDSU is working on....) are up in that picobit/sec range.
Mindboggling.
Steve |
