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The numbers are not fantasy at all - this will be a huge radio telescope - one square kilometer of pure collecting area and thousands of receiving antennas (For reference: Arecibo has around 0.073 km^2). We are talking data input to the correlator on the terabit/s scale. And technology-demonstration with ASKAP are well under way. ALMA is working quite well by now as well (> 600 Gb/s with just an 50 antenna array).