Starlink's Laser System Is Beaming 42M GB of Data per Day(pcmag.com)
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Starlink's Laser System Is Beaming 42M GB of Data per Day
https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlinks-laser-system-is-beaming-42-million-gb-of-data-per-day
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Also known as 42 petabytes. Or 42 trillion kilobytes. Or 336 quadrillion bits.
If I did the calculations right this puts starlink at roughly .32% of all internet traffic per second.
It's not clear if they're double counting the traffic across all the lasers in the traffic path or if it's only in and out of the laser mesh.
42M GB really had me scratching my head.
I like to think of this as 1.32 billion giga quarter bits myself. Quarter bits make everything bigger.
How about a 1969 MG MGB? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_MGB#/media/File:MG_MGB_open...
Stupid headline is stupid...
Stupid headline is stupid...
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