Net Speed Record Smashed

BrianWCarver writes "The BBC is reporting that scientists have set a new internet speed record by transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data (the equivalent of 4 hours of DVD-quality movies) across 10,978 kilometres (6,800 miles), from Sunnyvale in the US to Amsterdam in Holland, in less than one minute. Average speed: more than 923 megabits per second, or more than 3,500 times faster than a typical home broadband connection. The data was sent across the Internet2 network. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (Slac) Computer Services participated in the record-breaking event. Slac has an interest in such high-speed transfers as they have accumulated the largest known database in the world, which grows at one terabyte per day."

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Re:great

[Anonymous Coward]

actually there are over 200 universities and labs that use internet2. so if you don't count those several million people, then you are right.

No big deal. Canada has much faster network

[jonbnews]

Canada's CA*NET3 network can transmit the Library of Congress (LOC) in one second. It takes Internet2 a minute to do that. And the Canadian network has been deployed and operational for several years.

Article here: http://chronicle.com/free/v45/i47/47a02101.htm.