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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. Weathermap for Internet2/Abilene by tcyun · · Score: 4, Interesting
    You can check out the Internet2/Abilene weathermap at the Abilene NOC.

    Plus, the Internet2 backbone is moving to OC192 in the near term. Saturate that...

  2. Re:Yes, but unfortunately... by Yokaze · · Score: 4, Interesting

    >Consumer use of the internet will still get most content from America
    I think your logic is a bit flawed.

    The pipes to the U.S. do not necessarily carry data originating from the U.S.

    It shows that a large amount of traffic is routed through the U.S.

    This may include data originating in the US, but also data from Europe. It may even include data originating from Europe and targeted for Europe.

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