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."

Comments

DWDM & OTDM

[Ex-MislTech]

With some of the newer Telecom technologies they could hit
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_25/5 46 73084/p1/article.jhtml

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

Re:Bit 'B' or little 'b'?

[AKnightCowboy]

Capital B is not necessarily a standard for "Bytes".. people just like to pretend it is.

Of course capital B is a standard for Bytes. People are just ignorant to the fact. It doesn't make it any less true.

Re:100 MBPS...

[jerde]

Oh. Except in this case, the article itself is wrong.

Stupid, stupid article. Stupider /. editors.

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