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To: delmarbill who wrote (25017)	10/8/2000 10:09:02 PM
From: Sector Investor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42804

<<OC-768 capacity = wicked fast..>> Well, let's see. 40Gbps = 5GBps (8 bits per byte) If text only, a typical page has about 4,000 characters, but for math simplicity let's figure 5,000 (60 lines of 83 characters). 5GBps / 5,000 = 1 Million text pages per second 1M / 1000 (volumes) = 10,000 pages of text per volume. But that is without graphics. Figuring in graphics is more than I can handle at the moment, so let's use computer screens at 1,024x768 bit resolution. I get over 50,800 screens of data per second (40gbps / (1024*768)). The latest version of Netscape could download in .0036 seconds - much faster than the blink of an eye! Compression and compaction techniques are being completely ignored. Whether it is 1M pages or 50,800 screens per second, either way you are right - wickedly fast it is.