New World Record for Data Transmission
Posted By Rob Millard - 0 Comments -
What are the strategic implications of your firm and its competitors being able to transmit large amounts amounts of data across the globe, nearly instantaneously and at nearly zero cost?
A few weeks ago, scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications at the Heinrich-Hertz-Institut HHI in Berlin set a new world record by pumping data down a 160km fiberoptic cable at a rate of 2.56 terabits per second. Click here for an article on this from PhysOrg.com.
That's 2,560,000,000,000 (two trillion, five hundred and sixty billion) bits per second!
Or the equivalent of the contents of 60 DVDs per second!
The fastest commercial high speed data links in use today are about 50 x slower. But for how long?
Yet another indicator of our rapidly flattening world.
What are the implications for "knowledge management" of being able to access a mind-blowing array of high quality knowledge from across the world, nearly instantaneously and at nearly zero cost?
What would happen if the knowledge that you have carefully guarded in your knowledge bank became freely available to all, nearly instantaneously and at nearly zero cost? There are only two impediments to this actually happening:
1. Somebody being prepared to make that (or functionally identical) knowledge publicly available, and
2. The technology being available for people to access it quickly and easily, in a form that they can use.
My take on all this? Very arguably, the end of most proprietary knowledge as a source of sustainable competitive advantage!
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