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A GEANT Leap Forward In Networking For Research

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the forget-the-plunger-build-new-pipes dept.

An anonymous reader contributes: "A research backbone network interconnecting more than 30 countries, through which hundreds of universities can exchange traffic, with a backbone running at 10 Gbps, born on the 1st of December. Yes, it exists, and this research network is not even in the U.S.! GEANT is a european initiative which has just come online, so if you're a student in Europe, you may have noticed a significant change in your downloads speeds since last week. You can even check its weathermap! Well, obviously backbone links are still unused ... but that shouldn't last long, once people notice the sheer amount of bandwidth."

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  1. looks like us americans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have no backbone =(

  2. Ha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Try and slashdot that !

  3. Re:And as you can see, it's not using even... by pibakic · · Score: 3, Funny
    Did you even read the story? Its been there for 10 days !

    .. and you expect it to be at capacity already!

    Pib.

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  4. oh man by Marcus+Brody · · Score: 5, Funny
    You can just imagine it over at Dante right now:

    "Wow, well done guys. Our new multi-gagabyte network is now fully operational"

    "Cheers...."

    "Uh... Boss, hold on...."

    "What?"

    "Someone just posted us to slashdot!"

    *Poof* goes the bandwidth



    Seriously though, if they get slashdotted their really isnt any hope for the rest of us.

  5. Outside the US by pubjames · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, it exists, and this research network is not even in the U.S!

    Gosh! Outside the US! In Europe!

    The Europeans really seem to be advancing don't they? A friend of mine visited Europe and told me that they've got TV, computers, mobile telephones, everything! How long before they catch up with the US?

    However, they are still really lagging in cultural things. They don't have that many great places to hang out as in the US like Starbucks or MacDonalds (just little coffee shops and resturants which are all different!) and they don't have so many TV channels (and a lot of the ones they do have are in funny languages!). And they aren't as advanced politically as the US - they don't have the personal freedoms that we have, like the feedom to carry guns and, er, the other freedoms that we have.

    (Yes, this is sarcasm).

    1. Re:Outside the US by onion2k · · Score: 5, Funny

      We have MacDonalds and Starbucks. But we also have enough taste not to frequent them.

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  6. Re:And as you can see, it's not using even... by onion2k · · Score: 3, Funny

    I quite regurlarly download multi-gigabyte quantaties of data for academic research

    Recent into skin tone reproduction in MPEG video is it? Hehe..

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  7. A GEANT Leap Forward In Networking For Research by Jeff+Probst · · Score: 1, Funny

    who here groaned and thought "well, timothy can't even spell giant" until they read the post?