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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. STARLIGHT by jargoone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Science Technology And Research Light-Illuminated Gigabit High-Performance Transit. All hail acronyms.

    Yeah. More like "All hail naming a project to fit a stupid acronym".

  2. Re:Of course you know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A ping of 1 milli-second is ALOT slower
    than the speed of light , the routing
    a switching and packet opening and
    re-encapsulation is your time killer .

    optical networking is the key to beating
    this . it routes the light based on
    frquency spectrum to a MAN of a cetain city
    without having to open and rebuild the packets.

    AKA assign a certain spectrum to a certain city,
    and all DWDM optical routing sends that light
    frequency to that one city , there it is
    opened , and local transport over Sonet/ATM
    arranged .

    Alot of companies have yet to do this, but
    this model is on its way to most if not all.

    onsiterepair@yahoo.com