MARTINDALE'S

FILE DOWNLOAD TIME CALCULATOR


US/Pacific: Sunday, October 24, 2004
Sydney, Australia: Monday, October 25, 2004


"APPROXIMATE Time To Transmit Kb or Mb"


Author: Jim Martindale


Note 1
'Cable Modem' speeds vary
between 64 Kbps & 2 Mbps depending on service



Enter file size:
Wireless CDPD 9.6 hours minutes seconds
14,400 bps hours minutes seconds
Wireless GSM 19.2 hours minutes seconds
28,800 bps hours minutes seconds
33,600 bps hours minutes seconds
56 Kbps hours minutes seconds
64K ISDN hours minutes seconds
128K ISDN hours minutes seconds
Wireless 144K hours minutes seconds
640K-DSL hours minutes seconds
Bluetooth 728K hours minutes seconds
T1/DS1, 1.5-DSL hours minutes seconds
Wireless 2.4M hours minutes seconds
BPL Power Line 3.0M hours minutes seconds
T2/DS2 6.1M hours minutes seconds
Satellite 24M hours minutes seconds
Trans-European 34M hours minutes seconds
Ultraband Cable 40M hours minutes seconds
T3/DS3 44.7M hours minutes seconds
WiMax Wireless 75M hours minutes seconds
T4/DS4 hours minutes seconds
Fiber Optics
OC-1 hours minutes seconds
OC-3 hours minutes seconds
OC-9 hours minutes seconds
OC-12 hours minutes seconds
OC-18 hours minutes seconds
OC-24 hours minutes seconds
OC-36 hours minutes seconds
Fiber Optics
Fiberless Optics/Laser
OC-48 hours minutes seconds
OC-192 hours minutes seconds
OC-768 hours minutes seconds
OC-3072 hours minutes seconds
DWDM - 10Tbps hours minutes seconds
Cisco CR-1 - 92Tbps hours minutes seconds


Shortened Explanation of Terms

Bandwidth (8 bits = 1 byte)


T1, DS-1 or 1.5-DSL

For definition see Webopedia's Dictionary T-1
or for more information the T-1 Organization

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
Wireless Application Protocol Forum, WI-Fi,
UWB, Soma Networks, Navini Networks,
IP Wireless, Flarion Technologies, etc.

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 Communications, Cinergy
Power Line Communications Association
or HomePlug Powerline Alliance

3.0 Mbps (375,000 bytes per second)


T2 or DS-2

For definition see Webopedia's Dictionary T-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

For more information see Advent Networks

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


T3 or DS-3

For definition see Webopedia's Dictionary T-3

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


WiMax Broadband Wireless

For definition see Intel's WiMax

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


T4 or DS-4

For definition see Webopedia's Dictionary T-4

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


OPTICAL CARRIER

For definition's see Cisco Systems
Glossary of Optical Networking Terms


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)


Fiber Optics, Fiberless Optics/Laser

For more information on Fiberless Optics/Lasers see
Ciena, Cisco, Corning, Corvis, CyOptics, IBM,
JDS Uniphase, Juniper Networks, Lucent, Nortel,
Quest, Sycamore Networks, Sun, TeraBeam etc.


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-3072
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


TerraGrid 13.6 Teraflops

For more information see

Teragrid, Global Grid Forum or Globus (Globus Toolkit)


Petaflops (1015)
(thousand trillion calculations per second)

For more information see

NCO's Year 2004 Blue Book


Fastest Supercomputers
Teraflops (1012)

For more information see

TOP500 Supercomputer Sites


Fastest Data Transfer - February 22, 2004
Transfered at a rate of
6.25 gigabits per second (Gbit/s)
Caltech to CERN

For more information see
Ultralight
California Institute of Technology
or
FAST: Protocols for Ultrascale Networks
(Software Freely Available)
Networking Laboratory
California Institute of Technology


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