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To: Sig who wrote (13440)	11/30/2004 9:35:37 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13815

<<<In measuring data transmission speed, a terabit is one trillion bits, or 1,000,000,000,000 (that is, 1012) bits. A terabit is used for measuring the amount of data that is transferred in a second between two telecommunication points or within network devices. For example, several companies are building a network switch that passes incoming packets through the device and out again at a terabits-per-second speed. Terabits per second is usually shortened to Tbps. >> I am not to able to see how they do it, attain such speeds If a wire is considered as a tube filled with electrons, then shoving 100 electrons into one end produces a nearly simultaneous output of 100 at the other end. Is there no lag whatever between the two events.? No speed of light type limits in metal perhaps. Sig