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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
The RIAA and MPAA have both come out proclaiming Hayes' new 4800 baud modem with MNP5 as the best connection system possible, and are subsidizing the conversion from broadband to these hardware devices with a $50 rebate until the end of the year.
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Marge: "Does anyone need that much porn?"
Homer (drooling): "One million times faster...."
Suddenly my DSL no longer seems fast enough.
The Moo went "Cow!"
401 Mb/s is great, but what sort of ping rates were they getting?
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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.
Finally finding the pr0n becomes the bottle-neck.
Pr0n jokes are obligatory for this kind of story, read the manual.
News of faster internet made HIllary Rosen faint.
Someone shouted, "quick get some smelling salts".
Someone else said, "Here, use this sharpie marker."
Amsterdam and Alaska are separated by water, so I don't see how this can be a new land speed record, unless Jesus is involved.
Yeah, but how many Libraries of Congress is that? Until they release their accomplishment in Libraries-of-Congress-per-second, it means absolutely nothing to me, or anyone else. Right?
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
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.
is over 8000 times greater than the fastest dial-up modem
;-). And the fastest car on earth goes 8000 times faster than I crawl! Next time let's compare it to at least DSL!
I just LOVE sem-relevant comparisons!
So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
Napster on Internet 2? Damn these guys are quick!!!
"Debian Woody in less than two minutes"
Any woman will tell you waiting more than 90 seconds for a "Debian Woody" is unacceptable. My personal best is nearly 1/3 of that.
Its a joke..get it? No...RTFM
"Get them before they get....
They actually had it ready 2 weeks ago, but were unable to transfer the cd until they used a felt tip marker around the edge.
We all get along together like tornadoes and trailer parks.
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?
"The new wave is not value-added; it's garbage-subtracted" - Esther Dyson, Dec 1994
Take a notice, that Internet2 project is right now only for universities and big companys... And right now - for testing pourpourses only...
Which examination are the pourpourses taking?
Good luck to all the pourpourses out there!!
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
Every year there is a competition at the high performance conference (Supercomputing 2001 was this last one). It is entitled the 'Bandwidth Challenge'. This last year, NERSC took first place with a 3.3 gigabit/second sustained graphically represented simulation using seaborg.
Now, admittedly, it wasn't intercontinental, only from Oakland, Ca to Denver, Co....:D
Do you know why the road less traveled by is littered with the bones of the unwary?
I don't think anybody at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks even knew this was happening. I think those crazy Dutch just slurped down the image from our local linux mirror (which is maintained by our LUG).
It seems sort of bad form. The mirror is there for everyone, but bandwidth for the sake of bandwidth....
And now of course, EVERYONE will start trying to see how fast they can suck down our bandwidth. I bet my internet connection at work is terrible tomorrow.
Does anybody remember this urban legend?
There was a IT engineer based in London who was sacked because he couldn't get the ping rate between the London and N.Y.C. corporate offices below 20ms.......His boss didn't see the "speed of light" as a valid excuse!!
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
Internet2 page has some events and workshops that look like they might be really good deals. I registered for the IPV6 3 day workshop at the University of Utah for only $100.00 - as long as it doesn't suck, that should be money well spent.
The transfer rate of the new records calculates as follows: 625MB over 12,272km in 13 seconds = 590000 MB*Km/s = 0.590 TB*Km/s
When I drive home from work in a few minutes: 125TB (10^15 Synapses, Von Neumann et al.) at 85 Mph during rush hour (yeah, that manic...it's me) = 4.7 Tb*Km/s
The Boing full of DVD's calculates as follows: 4.7GB * 170.5 Cubic meters cargo space / 175 Cubic cm jewel case * 912 Km/h = 662,515Gb * 0.25Km/s = 1160 TB*Km/s
The University of Washington has transmitted 1.5Gbps of HDTV across the country. I guess the new thing here is the intercontinental aspect. Here for the UW press release.
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.