[Fourlanders] FW: exabyte

[Tom McElroy]

How many of those zeros represent bytes of spam?

I think a lot of us were well versed in spam long before the internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

Tom

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Randal DePriest <N4AC at amsat.org> wrote:

> I think it's 10^18 bytes... That's 1 with 18 zeros!
>
>
>
> On 6/9/09 7:47 PM, "Jim Worsham" <wa4kxy at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> > I saw this at work today.  I didn't know what an exabyte was so I looked
> it
> > up,  1018 bytes!
> >
> >
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Jim, W4KXY
> >
> > Cisco Says Internet Video to Explode - Internet traffic will increase
> > fivefold over the next five years, driven in large part by a jump in the
> > amount of video transmitted across the network, according to Cisco
> Systems.
> > The finding highlights a study of the demand on communications networks
> > between 2008 and 2013 the company will release Tuesday. By 2013, Cisco
> > expects Internet traffic to reach about 56 exabytes per month, up from
> about
> > 9 exabytes per month in 2008. More than 90 percent of this traffic will
> come
> > from video. Another place where Cisco predicts the amount of data will
> > explode is mobile, increasing 66 times by 2013.
> > <
> http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/06/09/cisco-says-internet-video-to-explode
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> >
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