Reply #41: At 40 Gbits/sec...

[Tesha]

At 40 Gbits/sec, you're talking 5 Gbytes/sec which
converts to 200 nanoseconds per byte. To a first
approximation, this is about the same as the speed
of a typical PC's main memory (RAM), so when the\
computer is downloading, it has no more power
left to do anything else.

It certainly can't save to the disk cache at that
sort of speed, let alone display pictures, HTML,
or anything else at that sort of speed. In fact,
Amdahl's Other Law suggests that this data stream
is about twice too fast to be processed by modern
PCs.

But it is an interesting technological demo.

Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_Law (See "Amdahl's Rule of Thumb")

Tesha