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>Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s [pdf] Why not 50GB/s? We don't say 50000 m/h instead of 50km/h

• deleted 5y ago
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• nix23 5y ago
  Wow you have much to learn buddy.
• drewg123 5y ago
  Because its network bandwidth, and network units are in bits for historical reasons. I actually griped about this in my talk .. it makes it a pain to talk about memory bw vs network bw without mental gymnastics to move around that factor of 8
  • tester756 5y ago
    thank you
  • jakeinspace 5y ago
    Personally, I think that keeping the bit as the default network bandwidth unit is a good idea. When expressing physical transmission limitations, the equations of information theory are all in terms of bits (being the smallest unit of classical information). Obviously, this means that somewhere on the spectrum from the Shannon Limit to storage on disk, we've gotta shift from bits to bytes. The NIC is as good a border as any.