terabit
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- noun
- /ˈtɛrəˌbɪt/
- Specialized
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terabit
- "The industry is now at about a terabit of information per square inch," said Willson, who co-authored the paper with chemical engineering professor Chris Ellison and a team of graduate and undergraduate students.
- terabits per second
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We are pretty close to completing our own high-speed DWDM network that crisscrosses the US and can carry terabits a second of traffic.
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Moving toward 1 terabit per square inch will require further departures from the current way of doing things and will pose considerably greater challenges.
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What can you do with 2 terabits per second per human being on the planet?
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I would think that a terabit network is the backbone.
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Do you know to what 200 terabits a second is equivalent?
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So, let's consider the consequences of ubiquitous terabit per second wireless data.
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Ten terabits a second.
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Think about Facebook with its 500,000,000 users or Twitter, which accumulates terabits of data every single day.
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The theoretical limit on a single strand of fiber optic cable is about 200 terabits a second.
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A modern data center can store several petabytes of information, which is equivalent to thousands of terabits.
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Etymology
The word terabit comes from two parts: the prefix tera- meaning 'one million million' and bit, the same word as the English 'bit' meaning 'a small piece of information'. So, a terabit is simply a very large number of bits and is used to measure data and transmission speed.