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- noun Plural form of
terabit .
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Examples
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Nowadays, several terabits per second can be transmitted in a single fibre.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 - Illustrated Presentation 2009
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NTT said it would buy Pacific Crossing Ltd., which operates the undersea cable offering 3.2 terabits per second of capacity.
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With customers such as the NBA, Clear Channel and Fox Interactive, Akamai delivers 15% to 30% of the Internet's traffic at rates that reach more than 4 terabits/second.
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Right now, the multi-chassis core race pits Cisco's Carrier Routing System against Juniper's T Series for tens – even hundreds -- of terabits supremacy.
Cisco vs Juniper 2010
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Though many older cables are still operative, all the activity has rendered networks insufficient, requiring newer ones capable of handling traffic measured in terabits, or one trillion bits, per second instead of much smaller megabits a second.
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In 2050, we're going to use about terabits, 26 trillion watts, if growth continues along these lines.
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The world in 2000 will have used about 13 terabits of energy.
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If we want to avoid crossing the red line on global warming, on CO2 in the atmosphere and grow from 13 terabits to 26 terabits, we need to, Wolf, basically save as much energy as we're now using, 13 terabits, and we need to produce from clean, emission-free sources -- wind, solar, biofuels -- another 13 terabits of energy.
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Network, a submarine fiber optic network capable of providing 1.2 terabits of bandwidth from Hawaii to mainland US, and 480 gigabits of capacity to Fiji, Australia and New Zealand.
Boing Boing: December 19, 2004 - December 25, 2004 Archives 2004
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A joint team of German and Japanese researchers, by experimenting with different frquencies, have managed to pump 2.56 terabits per second down a fiber optic cable.
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