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Old 07-11-2008, 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Drakej View Post
A DS5 carrier only gets 400mb/s. So what connection do you know of that breaks 50Gig/s? You would have to have a repeater every 2 feet to pull that off.
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OC-768 / STM-256x (almost 40 Gbit/s), used by AT&T as the backbone of it's internet network.

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I can't say I know how they do it, maybe they do have a repearter every 2 feet or so, I just know that that is what they get in information transfering speeds.
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