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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.
Current thread:
- Re: A letter from the CEO, (continued)
- Re: A letter from the CEO Mike Lyon (Nov 20)
- Re: A letter from the CEO Dan Hollis (Nov 20)
- Re: A letter from the CEO Matt Erculiani (Nov 20)
- Re: A letter from the CEO Chris Adams (Nov 20)
- Re: A letter from the CEO Mel Beckman (Nov 20)
- Re: A letter from the CEO Mark Tinka (Nov 21)
- Re: A letter from the CEO Mark Tinka (Nov 21)
- Re: A letter from the CEO Carsten Bormann (Nov 22)
- Re: A letter from the CEO William Herrin (Nov 22)
- Re: A letter from the CEO Carsten Bormann (Nov 22)
- Re: A letter from the CEO Mark Tinka (Nov 23)
- Re: [Spam]Re: A letter from the CEO Carsten Bormann (Nov 23)
- Re: A letter from the CEO William Herrin (Nov 22)
- Re: A letter from the CEO Warren Kumari (Nov 23)
- Re: A letter from the CEO Thomas Scott (Nov 23)
- Re: A letter from the CEO Mark Tinka (Nov 23)
- Re: A letter from the CEO Jeff Shultz (Nov 23)
