I was impressed by that number too, but after reading your comment it seems awfully small. In 2016, what kind of attack do you expect CDN like Akamai to handle?
Of course we will get there sooner than any of us in infosec want, but he is almost an order of magnitude off of what realistic threats look like.
Currently, I do the physical networking builds for a mental health company. We're already deploying 100 G-bit in these offices as primary connection trunks, because a lot of these services will be done remotely over video and audio.
I could open up a 20,000 user Camfrog Video Cluster chat room and could saturate a T-bit connection link just like that the second it's half-full. Have you ever used (let alone seen)a T-bit scale program before? Camfrog's been out for over a decade.
Orders of Magnitude, n; a class in a system of classification determined by size, each class being a number of times (usually ten) greater or smaller than the one before."
There are very few disciplines where OOM is done by exponential form (astronomy/star magnitude being one of them.) It's almost always base-ten. When you use electrical conductivity in mineral identification, you're always multiplying a number by ten multiple times over. The effect of that? You either add or remove an equal amount of zeros to the original number being multiplied.