An Exabyte is a unit of dimension associated to memory and memory. An Exabyte represents billions of gigabytes of data. As so many people use the Internet, huge amount of data is being saved online. To manage the quantity of Internet content online an Exabyte of memory is required.


Exabyte in Numbers

An Exabyte has the same principle as a byte where it represents a word length. An Exabyte is 1 billion bytes of data. While using supporter an Exabyte is 2 to the 60th power or 10 to the 18th power. While writing the estimated number of an Exabyte as a whole number it would be the number 1 with 18 zeros, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Moore's Law

Mr. Moore, Intel's co-founder, examined integrated circuit developments in ability, speed and performance. Moore's law can be applied to the boost in Internet speed and the data people include to the Internet every day. The content can be text, graphics or video. When the content increases, memory has to be added. So the amount is increasing from terabytes to Exabytes. As Internet usage expands, Exabytes will be used as a unit of dimension for Internet memory.

Internet Traffic

In 2007, the volume of digital information made and downloaded was 161 Exabytes. By 2011, Internet traffic is estimated to increase about 29 Exabytes every month, mainly because of the customer usage and video content.

Fun Facts

People use digital adaptable CDs to see videos or backup data from a PC. An Exabyte is equals 250 million DVDs. About 1,000 Petabytes equals 1 Exabyte. To put that in the viewpoint, considering requiring 20 Petabytes to back up the Library of Congress' content of 126 million items to digital format--980 Petabytes less by an Exabyte. According to a 2002 examine chat worldwide from land lines and cell phone amounted to 17.3 Exabytes of new data.

Optical Carrier 192

OC-192 stands for Internet bandwidth. Till 2009, the present Internet bandwidth is OC-48. For Internet carriers to handle Exabytes of data, the Internet backbone has to be updated to OC-192. AT&T has updated its Internet bandwidth to boost its cellular, Internet and TV services.