So Cisco rolls out this phenomenal router that will obviously feed some of the most expensive bundles of fiber and lots of them.
Every person in China can make a simultaneous video phone call.
Every movie ever made in Hollywood for all time can be downloaded in 4 minutes.
The entire contents of the Library of Congress can be downloaded in one second.
This is all nonsense of course, because the pipes between the router and the data are not big enough to come close to allowing these events. And the ability of hard disks, where such data would be stored, cannot come anywhere near these throughput speeds. Definitely not feasible for sure!
Yes, all of the above mentioned are not realistic but the point is, it has that huge amount of potential, that if the pipes can be enlarged in the future, all these can be easily achieved because the transmission speed is appallingly high.
We all know anything is possible. Nothing is impossible today.
Welcome to the technological age. We all know that Cisco is the Number 1 superpower when it comes to servers and routers but boy do we not know that it can come up with something so ridiculous!
It's ineffable to be honest. It can even be considered as an incandescent breakthrough so to speak.
Did I mention that this thing cost $90,000? Well, considering its capabilities, it is dirt-cheap, trust me! But then again, it was never meant for a consumer, because it will lead to more piracy and illegal stuff being committed along the way with such a powerful router. Who knows what the public will do with it!
Anyway, this router is actually pivotal for super gargantuan businesses that require transmission of data at lightning speed so that all the operations can be run efficiently and smoothly without a single breakdown or lagginess.
An example of which will be DHL where it has to handle millions of orders throughout. This router could help DHL detect where the package is and every metre it has travelled in a second. It can monitor the movement of the package to that very extent!
Impressive isn't it? But, I'm sure it will be subjected to misused in this maladjusted society today. Hackers, social engineers will definitely use it to commit more fraudulent acts and this might even help them to get away because they can transfer data so fast that the system will not even detect it! By the time the system took note of it, the thief would have already been long gone.
Good or bad, you guys decide!
Credits -marketwatch, -arstechnical, -adeel, -westernexperience
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