A GEANT Leap Forward In Networking For Research

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A GEANT Leap Forward In Networking For Research

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday December 10, 2001 @04:09AM 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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Then I just need a fiber to my home ... by Hougaard · 2001-12-10 04:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Dammn.. My ADSL is slow!
Yay! by Greyfox · 2001-12-10 04:13 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Now university students will be able to download porn and MP3s even faster!
That's cool and all, but the backbone's not the problem. The last mile's the problem.

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.nl Research by dcocos · 2001-12-10 04:30 · Score: 3, Offtopic

Great now all my downloads of adul^H^H^H^H research content from the Netherlands will get to me faster.

I hate e-commerce t-shirt
Re:BEFORE YOU REPLY by yomegaman · 2001-12-10 05:06 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Give me a break, this joke is about as offensive as the old "Those French, they've got a different word for everything" line. In other words, STFU. Thanks.

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Re:Pronunciation? by c0rtez · 2001-12-10 05:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Think homosexual insect (gay ant).
Re:And as you can see, it's not using even... by blane.bramble · 2001-12-10 05:10 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Meanwhile the U.S.A. has become the only military superpower, an industrial powerhouse and moral beacon in the world. Why?

Vast natural resources.
Re:looks like us americans by Buck2 · 2001-12-10 05:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

WTF is your point?

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Wow! by statusbar · 2001-12-10 05:35 · Score: 1, Offtopic

You know you are a geek when you look at that network bandwidth image with the blue lines and drool. It is better than pr*n!

I wanna move to Berlin!

--jeff

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Re:And as you can see, it's not using even... by Alien54 · 2001-12-10 05:42 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Meanwhile the U.S.A. has become the only military superpower, an industrial powerhouse and moral beacon in the world. Why? --- Vast natural resources.
Also the fact of not having the division caused by a variety of factors such as wars, multiple languages, monetary systems, divison of resources amongst competing interests.

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