Petabit (Noun)
Meaning
A unit of information equal to 1000 terabits or 10^15 bits.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The company's new data storage facility is capable of handling a petabit of data every second.
- Researchers have made a breakthrough in developing a device that can transfer data at speeds of one petabit per second.
- A single petabit is a staggering amount of data, equivalent to about 200 million hours of music or 400,000 movies.
- Scientists predict that by 2030, global data transfer rates will exceed 10 petabits per second.
- Google's latest undersea internet cable is expected to increase transatlantic data transfer capacity to 250 petabits per second.