Every second, 3.2 terabits of data can fire down the cable.
 

Interesting article about the internet connection from NY to UK

The actual cable itself isn't much wider than a garden hose. But flashing through the eight fibre-optic lines bundled inside its narrow confines, each just the width of a single human hair, is enough bandwidth for 20 million people. Every second, 3.2 terabits of data can fire down the cable, each single piece taking 0.00072 seconds to complete the 7,600-mile return journey from here to the US.


Read the article here

Wow! Sounds like fun times ahead, full blown tv broadcasts on the internet in real time etc if that actually happens and is cheap enough.

That's a lot of porn :1orglaugh

That is a good read. Interesting stuff!

great...tubes in HD, no download time. just what we need.

:thumbsup :1orglaugh

When they can put one of those from my house to the ISP I will get excited.

Great news for tubes.

tubes will be happy