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Internet Speed Record Broken (Again)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the here-i-am-stuck-at-33.6 dept.

captain igor writes "CNN is reporting that researchers at Caltech and CERN successfully send 1.1 Terabytes of data at a rate of 5.44 Gbps. This is around 20,000 times faster than your typical home broadband connection and almost doubles the previous record. "

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  1. Yes? by NetNinja · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And it will continue to be broken.

    On to other news

  2. Re:How many hops? by ebh · · Score: 4, Insightful
    According to the article:

    CERN, whose laboratories straddle the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, said it had sent 1.1 Terabytes of data at 5.44 gigabits a second (Gbps) to a lab at the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, on October 1.

    What the article did not say was whether that was the same "Internet" we all use, or a specially built edge network.