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Re: A letter from the CEO


From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom com>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:35:22 +0200



On 11/23/20 09:52, Carsten Bormann wrote:

I know most people here don’t care (because they don’t have to(*), literally), but there are standards for these 
things, and there are reasons for the way that they have turned out to be.  If you want to taste a little treatise from 
engineers who do care (because their job is building things that measure), you can look up https://u.nu/correct-units .

Given that Tbps is still relatively uncommon in many operator networks, it's not uncommon to hear people say Megabit and Gigabit with no problem, but say Terabyte when referring to Terabit, as well.

That one does get to me, but I'm often boozed up on enough wine to care :-).

Mark.


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