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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."
If I'm not mistaken, that's approximately as fast as a 7200rpm ATA/66 drive can transfer data, say, to another partition on the same drive, or what have you.
Palaces, barricades, threats, meet promises
Take a notice, that Internet2 project is right now only for universities and big companys... And right now - for testing pourpourses only...
(sorry for my bad english)
* Origin: XBase BBS (2:490/4100) Well the good old days may not return and rocks might melt and sea may burn.
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.
Must be nice to have a pipe that's not full of SPAM, pop-up ads, Code Red, Nimda, SQLSnake, Gnutella, ARP scans from the braindead fucks at my ISP, AIM crap...
--saint
Some day, I'll have that kind of bandwidth running to my home. And my ISP will still disallow my personal telnet server because of the strain it will put on the network.
This article, I feel is more than a little vauge. What did they use to transfer? Was it just over electrical/telephone lines, or did they use optics? What kind of compression was used, and what kind of signal boosters/optical repeaters were used in sending this. All of these items could be used to affect the speed of transfer, and well, the article just doesn't say. I mean in theory, one could build a router from parallel to serial that could take data at 9.6 terabits/sec. How are they actually measuring things? Just the time between there and here? Using full optical lines, wouldn't they be able to set the record at c * the index of refraction of the fiberoptic line? It would just be a matter of putting all the data into one block of light.
Also the article suggested only one way communication, what happens with error checking and such?
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Unix is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.
This has been going on for a long time, of course. Actually, we (in McIntosh hall) once showed a swedish nurses porn flick on the wall of the neighboring residence hall (it was Nerland hall). The Nerlandites weren't amused; I'm not sure why. We DID invite them to come over and watch.
This was a 16mm film, long before digital movies were practical (about 1982 or '83).
pr0n jokes aside :-)
They really shouldn't be building up expectations in people's minds that "Internet2" is going to make things faster for them.
These types of stories eventually wind up in the Tech section of the local newspapers etc. and its A Bad Thing TM to build up mis-perceptions.
Internet2 is not going to solve last mile bandwidth limitations.
yes(true), i was tasked to measure the speed of light using a piece of equipment that was 1000 times too slow, or needed 1000 samples to attain the accuracy needed. It was for a mapping system i designed, and due to 'the boss' wanting to use radio waves(speed of light), he wanted to clock the waves and get telemetry. ;)(741 mph @ sea level, for you precision freaks), although if they could packet 1,000,000 sound waves together, without losing integrity, it could be done.
After trying to explain for the tenth time, i just built the fscking thing anyway. And lo and behold, it didn't work, but because a minor detail of how a chip had a swept freq. response, i got reamed.
After the eleventh time, we went to sonar telemetry, waaaay easier to time.
Moral of the story-they sure as hell didn't use sonar
ya riiight!