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Net Speed Record Smashed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fast-ethernet-not-so-fast-anymore dept.

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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  1. great by Stanley+Feinbaum · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The best part is since internet2 is a private network, no mainstream users are going to benefit from it's incredible speed. Hooray!

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    Stanley Feinbaum, professional journalist and master debater! God bless the USA!

    1. Re:great by robi2106 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Well, if by mainstream you mean people that aren't doing academic research, or students at www2 connected universities . . . then yes. But that is a crap load of people connected through that connection.

      Greanted when I was on my University's www2 connection and getting sweet low pings (90ms) to other students on their university www2 connection I wasn't academic use . . . but it was cool!

      robi

  2. Internet2? by gordyf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They transferred all this data over Internet2 and the writeup says "...set a new internet speed record ...". Isn't that cheating?

    That's like saying "Our new car can go 6000 mph! (on a conveyer belt moving at 5950 mph).

  3. Re:What media were they writing to? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    likely /dev/null

  4. Internet 2 will never be allowed to the public. by zymano · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Would just create a mess like the regular internet. We need to get behind the public government utility companies like gas,water,electric to bring us the future networks. I am telling you all right now , the private sector is about ripping people off and not delivering new technology like internet 2.

  5. Re:That's cool... by i_am_nitrogen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hopefully never. There should be a network that remains purely academic forever. Commercialization is evil. Look what it did to Internet1. 95% of all pages have some kind of ad on them, and finding anything useful when you're looking for something obscure is nearly impossible, whereas in about '95 I could find just about any obscure thing I wanted to know.

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  6. Re:That's cool... by Rayen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Obscure things? Try everything2! [/shameless plug]

  7. Uhh by mindstrm · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The internet itself is a bunch of private networks all hooked together. Internet2 is no different.

    Yeah, okay, you can't go out and buy dialup on it.. but that's not what The Internet was started as either.

  8. FedEx could beat that... by captaineo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A sack full of 27 200GB hard disks (or 1200 DVD-Rs) sent on a twelve-hour flight would also equal the claimed 1 Gbit/sec transmission rate... A couple cargo pallets of hard disks would blow it away :).

    The ping time would be about 43200000ms though :(