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New Internet2 Land Speed Record

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the infinite-bandwidth-now dept.

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."

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  1. that's fast by Kargan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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  2. It will never help me. by fmaxwell · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  3. Re:Compression and such.. by mindstrm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You are speaking theoretically.

    Yes, you could send data much faster than this over fiber. We do it in labs all the time. HEck, we do it in networks over copper all the time (GigE..)

    This is an actual working network, and they send the data from Alaska to The Netherlands at 400mbps. That is fantastic.