Could you please explain to me how you got 0.0142578125 teraBYTES from 16.4 terabits?

I guess you could 16.4*0.87 for maybe about 13% of overhead....we get 14.268 terabits per second, divided by 8 BITS in a byte (assuming there isn't additional bits for other error correction) we still get 1.7835 TeraBYTES a second....which gives us the 28 miliseconds that Nick was original talking about....

Your math doesn't make sense by orders of magnitude....

Ah, but was it terabits (10 ** 12 bits) or tebibits (2 ** 40 bits)? Considering there's about a 10% difference, we wouldn't want anybody to feel cheated, would we?

That's about 10000 uncompressed HD streams at once, 5000 if they are 60p...

Don't think I know anyone that can handle that much porn...

Wel..Shoudn't you divide by 8 instead of 1024 to get bytes out of bits? I would say YES..Using the 1 kbyte is 1000 bytes methode (the easy way).. You (we) should be able to download 123 bluray movies in 3 seconds. Granted that there is a connection time needed to make the transfer, which can lead the grandtotal downloadtime up to 3 seconds...

Well Nick, since you work in the optical field, you should be aware of (b)it's and (B)ytes. 14.6Tbps (or teraBITS per second) is actually 0.0142578125 teraBYTES, which equals 15 GigaBYTES. Since a Blue-ray disk is around 50 GigaBYTES, then 50 GigaBYTES divided by 15 gigaBYTES per second equal about 3 seconds. Wow eh.

dump it all into some ram banks. 64 gigabytes of ram is not to farfetched.

Is that a BT 16.4Tbps that drops to about 1Tbps if you're more than a mile from the exchange?

I'm well aware of the technicalities of achieving this speed over that distance using TDM, DWDM and EDFAs, being a researcher in optical fibre technologies. 

My comment was made within the context of the statement within the article that you could transfer a bluray disc in three seconds (also much faster than data storage could supply).

@ Nick: You don't think you can have that 16.4Tbps line all to yourself do you?

More factors come into play besides line speed so it would not be 28miliseconds yes the speed at which the data "CAN" transfer over the line would Theoretically be, but read and write speeds of data storage on 
both ends limit the overall transfer speed.

Just means theres more bandwith for more streams, without degrading connection speed

at 16.4Tbps you would be able to transfer a dual layer bluray disc in 28 milliseconds