15,000,000,000,000 bits per second!
Phew!
Cisco Systems plans to introduce a network switch today for corporations grappling
with rapidly growing Internet data transfers and the increased use of
applications that draw on remote data storage, known as cloud
computing.
The switch, the Nexus 7000, will provide a sharp increase in traffic capacity compared with the company’s current products, to 15 trillion bits of data per second.
Cisco…offered a range of examples to try to capture the significance of the increase in speed. It said the switch could transfer all 90,000 Netflix movies in 38.4 seconds or send a two megapixel digital image to every human being on Earth in 28 minutes.
Reports of the Web collapsing from overload may be premature?
The switch, the Nexus 7000, will provide a sharp increase in traffic capacity compared with the company’s current products, to 15 trillion bits of data per second.
Cisco…offered a range of examples to try to capture the significance of the increase in speed. It said the switch could transfer all 90,000 Netflix movies in 38.4 seconds or send a two megapixel digital image to every human being on Earth in 28 minutes.
Reports of the Web collapsing from overload may be premature?
Posted: Mon - January 28, 2008 at 08:58 AM