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Lasercom to provide 10 gigabits, not gigabytes per second

Submit on Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 06:11

In a recent press release regarding interoperability tests between TSAT and the Airborne Lasercom Risk Reduction Terminal, Boeing confused gigabytes with gigabits. Specifically, data capacity afforded by the Lasercom service will be starting at 2.5 gigabits per second and can reach up to 10 gigabits per second (not gigabytes as erroneously claimed). The article in our archive has been updated accordingly.

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