New Internet2 Land Speed Record

SquadBoy writes "An international team set a new record for Internet performance by transferring the equivalent of an entire compact disc's contents across more than 7608 miles (12,272 km) of network in 13 seconds. The rate of 401 megabits per second achieved in transferring 625 megabytes of data from Fairbanks, Alaska to Amsterdam in the Netherlands is over 8000 times greater than the fastest dial-up modem."

Comments

Re:Does Internet2 use standard IPv6?

[perky]

Does Internet2 use standard IPv6?
http://www.internet2.edu

Why is a seperated network?

You think they are going to spend all that money on a serious research network only to let Joe Public use al, the bandwidth on pr0n?

Re:that's fast

[Alan Partridge]

err... no it isn't. My little G4's internal SCSI array reads at sustd/peak 78/286 writes at 76/92. That's MB/sec so we're talking IRO R >600/>2200 W >600/>700. And this little array's nothing special, just a pair of Fujitsu MAJ's at 10K rpm with 4MB cache each on an ATTO UL3D twin channel host controller. Cost around a grand to install is all - there are WAY faster drives than those available now - awesome 15k rpm beasts than can top 60MB/sec sustained...