ArchyModge t1_itte8yn wrote
Reply to comment by RogerMexico in A single chip has managed to transfer the entire internet's traffic in a single second by redhatGizmo
The article never claimed to transfer the entire internet. It just said it transferred data equivalent to the average internet traffic per second.
RogerMexico t1_itth7os wrote
Right, I should probably reword it but I'll leave my original comment up.
Point is that the that's there's no practical way to get all of the internet into that chip. This is a synthetic test and there is no way to collect all of the world's internet traffic with a chip like this, which is what I believe the title is provoking.
It's kind of like saying a 12" pipe transferred all of Niagara Fall's water, when it really just shot out a gallon of water at supersonic speeds for a split second.
The title really should say something like: "A single chip has managed to transfer data at a rate equivalent to the entire internet's traffic in a single second"
bsloss t1_itw16aq wrote
This isn’t really related to the main conversation, but shoving water through a pipe at ridiculously high speeds and pressures actually has several interesting problems which essentially limit the maximum amount of water that can go through a pipe per second. https://what-if.xkcd.com/147/
Mupp99 t1_itx15n6 wrote
The way it said transfer something in a second implied a fixed amount of data in a second rather than matching a speed for a second.
ArchyModge t1_itx2fe8 wrote
The title is stupid. They should’ve said something like “A single chip and fiber optic cable transferred the equivalent of the internet’s traffic”.
Traffic is a rate (data/second) so saying it was done “in a second” is misleading, confusing and redundant.
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