MARTINDALE'S FILE DOWNLOAD TIME CALCULATOR US/Pacific: Saturday, May 25, 2013 Sydney, Australia: Sunday, May 26, 2013

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"APPROXIMATE Time To Transmit
KILOBYTES, MEGABYTES, GIGABYTES, TERABYTES, PETABYTES OR EXABYTES"


Author: Jim Martindale

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Note 1:
'Cable' & 'DSL' Speeds vary
between 640 Kbps (Kbits) & 60+ Mbps (Mbits) depending on service

Note 2:
'Satellite' Speeds vary
between 44 Mbps (Mbits) & 10+ Gbps (Gigabits) depending on service

Note 3:
'Wireless' Speeds vary Widely Depending on Carrier

Enter file size: Wireless CDPD 9.6 years days hours minutes seconds 14,400 bps years days hours minutes seconds Wireless GSM 19.2 years days hours minutes seconds 28,800 bps years days hours minutes seconds 33,600 bps years days hours minutes seconds 56 Kbps years days hours minutes seconds 64K ISDN years days hours minutes seconds 128K ISDN years days hours minutes seconds Wireless 144K years days hours minutes seconds 640K-DSL/Cable years days hours minutes seconds Bluetooth 728K years days hours minutes seconds T1/DS1, 1.5M-DSL/Cable years days hours minutes seconds Wireless 2.4M years days hours minutes seconds Broadband/Power Line 3.0M & 3.0M-DSL/Cable years days hours minutes seconds T2/DS2 6.0M,6.0M-DSL/Cable years days hours minutes seconds Satellite 24M years days hours minutes seconds Trans-European 34M years days hours minutes seconds Ultraband Cable 40M years days hours minutes seconds T3/DS3 44.7M years days hours minutes seconds WiMax Wireless 75M years days hours minutes seconds T4/DS4 years days hours minutes seconds Ethernet, Satellite & Optical Wireless or Free-Space Optics (FSO) 10 Gigabit Ethernet 10 Gigabit FSO 10 Gigabit Satellite years days hours minutes seconds 100 Gigabit Ethernet years days hours minutes seconds Fiber Optics OC-1 years days hours minutes seconds OC-3 years days hours minutes seconds OC-9 years days hours minutes seconds OC-12 years days hours minutes seconds OC-18 years days hours minutes seconds OC-24 years days hours minutes seconds OC-36 years days hours minutes seconds Fiber Optics Fiberless Optics/Laser OC-48 years days hours minutes seconds OC-192 years days hours minutes seconds OC-768 years days hours minutes seconds OC-1536 years days hours minutes seconds OC-3072 & IBM's 160-Gbps Optical-transceiver Chipset years days hours minutes seconds TERABIT DWDM - 10Tbps years days hours minutes seconds Cisco CR-1 - 92Tbps years days hours minutes seconds

Shortened Explanation of Terms

Bandwidth (8 bits = 1 byte)


T1, DS-1 or 1.5-DSL

1.536 Mbps (192,000 bytes per second)


Wireless 2.4M

For more information on
Wireless WI-Fi, Wireless Local Loop (WLL),
Radio In The Loop (RITL), Fixed-Radio Access (FRA) or
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) see
WI-Fi,
Qualcomm

2.400 Mbps (300,000 bytes per second)


Broadband over Power Line (BPL)
Digital Powerline (DPL)
Broadband Power Line Communications (PLC)

For more information see
Current Group,
Broadband Over Power Lines Industry Association
or HomePlug Powerline Alliance

3.0 Mbps + (375,000 bytes per second)


T2 or DS-2

6.144 Mbps (768,000 bytes per second)


Satellite - Commercial

24.00256 Mbps (3,000,320 bytes per second)


Trans-European TEN-34

34.08 Mbps (4,250,000 bytes per second)


Ultraband Cable

40.0 Mbps (5,000,000 bytes per second)


T3 or DS-3

44.736 Mbps (5,592,000 bytes per second)


WiMax Broadband Wireless

75.00 Mbps + (9,375,000 bytes per second)


T4 or DS-4

274.176 Mbps (34,272,000 bytes per second)



ETHERNET, FSO & Satellite

10 Gigabit Ethernet
10 Optical Wireless or Free-Space Optics (FSO)
10 Gigabit Satellite

For definition see Webopedia's 10 Gigabit Ethernet

For Satellite see
"KIZUNA" Satellite - Japan Aerospance Exploration Agency (JAXA)

9.953 Gbps or 9953.28 Mbps (1,244,000,000 bytes per second)


100 Gigabit Ethernet

For definition see Wikipedia 100 Gigabit Ethernet

99.532 Gbps or 9953.28 Mbps (12,440,000,000 bytes per second)



OPTICAL CARRIER

For Definition of Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) see
Wikipedia
SONET Standards including Bit Rate, SDH Signal, SONET Capacity & SDH Capacity


OC-1

(1 DS-3, 28 DS-1, 672 DS-0)
51.84 Mbps (6,480,000 bytes per second)


OC-3

(3 DS-3, 84 DS-1, 2016 DS-0)
155.52 Mbps (19,440,000 bytes per second)


OC-9

(9 DS-3, 252 DS-1, 6048 DS-0)
466.56 Mbps (58,320,000 bytes per second)


OC-12

(2 DS-3, 336 DS-1, 8064 DS-0)
622.08 Mbps (77,760,000 bytes per second)


OC-18

(18 DS-3, 504 DS-1, 12096 DS-0)
933.12 Mbps (116,640,000 bytes per second)


Gigabit Optical Networks


OC-28

(4 DS-3, 672 DS-1, 16.128 DS-0)
1.244 Gbps or 1244.16 Mbps (155,520,000 bytes per second)


OC-36

(36 DS-3, 1008 DS-1, 24,192 DS-0)
1.866 Gbps or 1866.24 Mbps (233,280,000 bytes per second)


OC-48

(344 DS-1, 32,256 DS-0)
2.488 Gbps or 2488.32 Mbps (311,000,000 bytes per second)


OC-192

(192 DS-3, 5376 DS-1,129,024 DS-0)
9.953 Gbps or 9953.28 Mbps (1,244,000,000 bytes per second)


OC-768

40 Gbps or 40000 Mbps (5,000,000,000 bytes per second)


OC-1536
80 Gbps or 80000 Mbps (10,000,000,000 bytes per second)


OC-3072
&
IBM's Optical-transceiver Chipset

160 Gbps or 160000 Mbps (20,000,000,000 bytes per second)



Terabit Optical Networks


DWDM
Dense Wave Division Multiplexing

10 Tbps


Cisco CRS-1

92 Tbps

For more information see
Cisco CRS-1 Technical Information

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