A GEANT Leap Forward In Networking For Research

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."

Comments

Yay!

[Greyfox]

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.

.nl Research

[dcocos]

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

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Re:And as you can see, it's not using even...

[blane.bramble]

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

Vast natural resources.

Wow!

[statusbar]

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

Re:And as you can see, it's not using even...

[Alien54]

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.