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8.6 GB Internet?
prostoalex writes "Caltech computer scientists announced the protocol, capable of delivering 8,609 Mbps over the Internet, using 10 simultaneous flows of data. The research project was conducted in partnership with CERN, DataTAG, StarLight, Cisco, and Level 3. The practical applications, according to the press release, is ability 'to download a full-length DVD movie in less than five seconds'. There is a number of papers and scientific publications available."
CERN, DataTAG, StarLight & Cisco - watch out! MPAA is coming for you!
I have a dream. Some day the editors will learn the difference between a bit and a byte. Or I'll byte a bit of their heads off. [grumble]
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Bless those people
I can't help but be amused that that was their first measurement standard for it.
Oh, they meant legit full-length DVD movies...
The coolest voice ever.
impatient people... can't even wait 5 minutes nowadays... geesh...
is Jack Valenti having an aneurysm.
This
How many Libraries of Congress per hour is that?
Wearing pants should always be optional.
Five seconds?? Ohhhh... but I want it NOW!
Well,
--- Hindsight is 20/20, but walking backwards is not the answer.
>um.... since when was a byte more than 8 bits?
/. a server using the existing infrastructure should paint a pretty picture of where the bottleneck stands :)
When you count in octal, there are 10 bits to a byte. After a few months doing coding on old big iron I accidently balanced my checkbook in octal. Took me a WEEK to get that straightened out.
Honestly though, this doesn't eliminate the bottleneck, it just moves it from the cables to the Server, or to your hard drive. Given that we can pretty much
I still would like to get it to my house, though.
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
An array of card punchers. A very wide array. Or just a piezo speaker, and store it in a mercury delay line until you have time to write it to disk. Hmm... then again, room temperature would give far too much brownian motion for coherence at that bandwidth in mercury. Metallic hydrogen delay line, then.
I've had this sig for three days.
Why would you want to do that? Don't you understand that this connection would be much, much faster than your current modem? It would be at least 24 times faster, with the potential of being up to 57 times faster. Especially during off-peak hours like Thursday at 8pm.
That would make me 24 times the pirate I am today, with the potential to be up to 57 times the pirate I am today. Then they would use that peculiar method of reasoning to assign me a sentence that would require 24 lifetimes to serve, with the potential of requiring up to 57 lifetimes to serve.
Of course, I'm all for upping the stakes, here.
Like what I said? You might like my music
Who needs hard disk capacity if you can stream a movie in realtime?
Why would anybody want to watch an entire movie in 5 seconds, certainly my ability to absorb information is not as good as that and I regard it to be rather high(Toung in cheek).
If you read a speed reading book, does it take you less time to read the second half?
8.6Mb/s is snatching it
Yeah, yeah. I meant Gb/s. Still not fast enough to get you laid.
From the article: The protocol is called FAST, standing for Fast Active queue management Scalable Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).
That would be FAQMSTCP..in other words pronounced
FAH Q MS TCP...
as read on FARK...
(stood on end, that is...)
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
I don't understand what it means tho, I need all my measurements in Library of Congress.
Hey, what happened to Libraries of Congress per fortnight?
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.