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China, Russia, U.S. To Build 100MBps Network
prostoalex writes "Gloriad (Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development), a scientific data network, will unite academic institutions in China, Russia and the United States with a 100 MBps link. National Center for Supercomputing Applications received a $2.8 mln grant from NSF, and both Russia and China will match this amount to contribute to network build-up. Later this year, as the Associated Press article notes, a new plan will be launched to move the international network to 10 GBps capacity."
TFA says its "155 million bytes per second."
The IT section color scheme sucks.
With some of the newer Telecom technologies they could hit .
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speads of 40 Giga-bits per second if they wanted, most
likely faster as my knowledge is somewhat dated, ie. 2001
I know Nortel was working on sending 160 Tera-bits down a
single strand of fiber, and I have seen working gear that
pushes 40 Giga-bits 2 years ago
Here is a article from 1999 that said they hit 1.6 Tera
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0CGC/19_25/
There is now 10 Giga-bit Ethernet
www.10gea.org
The Telecom links always outpace the current Ethernet high end
by usually a sizeable amount
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"
Of course capital B is a standard for Bytes. People are just ignorant to the fact. It doesn't make it any less true.
Oh. Except in this case, the article itself is wrong.
/. editors.
Stupid, stupid article. Stupider
The network is just a 155Mbps -- that's Megabits per second -- network. That's just an OC3.
Look at the google cache of a powerpoint discussing this network.
So this breaks no speed records -- but it is a nice fat pipe into some places that have very limited bandwidth to the outside world.
- Peter
INsigNIFICANT
Some more info here...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/23/international
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