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:Internet2?

[Bad_Feeling]

I think you have a solid point. Could Ihook up 6 PCs with 1000mb ehternet (or someething like that), call it internet 3, and thus set a new official speed record for the old school internet because both use tcp/ip? I dont think so. Unless they can figure out a way to send data that fast over public internet, the speed record accomplishes simply states what some organizations with lots of money to install private data lines could do.