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Sure it does. It says per-second. What is confusing about it?
by typeofhuman 4y ago
Sure it does. It says per-second.
What is confusing about it?
- ouid 4y agoWhat are the units of internet traffic?
- mirekrusin 4y agoThey use Pbit/s in the article.
- robertlagrant 4y agoData volume transmitted per time increment.
- stjohnswarts 4y ago10000 libraries of congress per second.
- cynwoody 4y agoThe Library of Congress claims† to host 21 petabytes of digital content. That would take†† a little over a minute and a half to send over the link described in the article, assuming, of course, that the content has been put in a ready-to-send form. †https://www.loc.gov/programs/digital-collections-management/about-this-program/frequently-asked-questions/#:~:text=The%20Library%20of%20Congress'%20digital%20collections%20are%20dynamic%3B%20they%20continually,comprising%20914%20million%20unique%20files https://www.loc.gov/programs/digital-collections-management/.... ††https://www.google.com/search?q=21+petabytes+%2F+1.84+petabits&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=21+petabytes+%2F+1.84+petabi...
- postalrat 4y agoIt can transmit one internet of traffic per second. So the unit is an internet. They should have used a more common unit like encyclopedia britannicas.
- thomastjeffery 4y agoBut how long of an internet? That's the tricky bit: "internet traffic" is already a measure of units over time.
- stevuu 4y agoHow many tricky bits are there in 1.84 petabits?
- etrautmann 4y agoThe word traffic already implies a rate
- Sebb767 4y agoPer-second doesn't make sense in this context. Either it can transmit all of the internet traffic, so it has sufficient bandwidth to theoretically mirror the whole internet traffic, or it can't. A time unit doesn't make sense here. The alternative interpretation would be that it can transmit the whole amount of data ever sent through the internet in its existence per second, but this seems rather unlikely.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoWell barring the title they define it in the article and say it can match the current speed of all internet traffic raw traffic speed. doesn't matter what units you use as long as it's based on basic units bits/second. Pretty straightforward. Can it keep it up? probably not currently. Can it handle similar amounts of switching? Also probably not.
- williamscales 4y ago> Either it can transmit all of the internet traffic, so it has sufficient bandwidth to theoretically mirror the whole internet traffic, or it can't. A time unit doesn't make sense here. It’s not a time unit. It’s a rate. The rate is twice the rate of traffic on the internet. Therefore it can transmit all the traffic on the internet. Ideas like traffic only make sense in the context of per-unit-time, because they’re fundamentally about a flow.
- Dylan16807 4y agoYes, it's a rate. The aspect of time is already baked in. Adding an additional unit of time is either redundant or means you're talking about acceleration.
- JCharante 4y agoI can run twice the speed of Usain Bolt.. per second
- chrisseaton 4y ago> What is confusing about it? If it can transmit it per-second, then it can also transmit it per-hour, so it's redundant and doesn't add anything, which means it's confusing as to why it's there.
- happytoexplain 4y ago"Car X is capable of the same velocity as car Y, per hour."
- Camisa 4y agoWhy would you ever say that "car X is capable of the same velocity as car Y if you measure car X's velocity by km/h and car Y's velocity by mph"?