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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."
There aren't enough kittens in the world for this kind of technology.
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Awwwwe, but I want my DivX rip now...
--Joey
Yeah, I submitted this story as well. At 7:00am PST this morning. But I'm not bitter. Much.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - BF
How many "lengths of a football field" is that?
;-)
Do you mean a FIFA football field or an American football field?
Be nice to people on the way up. You will meet them again on your way down!