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Transatlantic Gigabit Gaming.. err, Research

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can-beat-up-your-network dept.

YourHero writes: "Science Technology And Research Light-Illuminated Gigabit High-Performance Transit. All hail acronyms. U Illinois at Chicago has hooked up to SURFnet (Netherlands) at 2.5Gbps, with plans to go to 10Gbps and hook up Canada, Asia and other parts of Europe. StarLight as its called makes a monster gaming ... err. I mean 'real-time, multi-site virtual reality.' Looks like they've been racking up killer ping times for a few weeks now.

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  1. Check your bold tags by ekrout · · Score: 5, Funny

    STARLIGHPT (pronounced "starlipped"?) just doesn't have a nice ring to it...

    ;-)

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  2. Canada, Asia and other parts of Europe by Mark4ST · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...plans to go to 10Gbps and hook up Canada, Asia and other parts of Europe

    Since when did Canada and Asia become "parts of Europe"? I'm always the last to know this stuff. *sigh*