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China, Russia, U.S. To Build 100MBps Network

Posted by timothy on from the gotta-reach-those-.ru-sites dept.

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."

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  1. Yeah but does China REALLY need it? by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Given that they censor every damn thing that comes in and out of the country don't expect to see a lot of sites in China, especially anything that talks about Tibet, Falun Gong or any system that doesn't agree with the "great unfailing Chinese leadership".

    What do they need with 100 Mbps? Ways to send elaborate communist propoganda?

    There is the idea that the more you bring them into the world community the more they have to play by the rules. Witness their growing pains regarding the WTO. Gotta respect intellectual property now.

    Agree with me or not you can have fun testing whether or not the Chinese are blocking your favorite sites.

  2. Will have to wait for the second announcement by burns210 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    But if they are gonna make a 100MB network, how can they plan to 'upgrade' that to 10GB, without having to replace nearly everything they buy? Cat6, not Cat5e must be used (or so the IEEE standard says for 10GB) so if they buy that now, then they don't have to replace it. But what of routers, switches and nics? Unless they are buy 10GB hardware now, and just running it at 100MB for fun then flipping the switch to FASTMODE later, how do they plan to do this?

    Why build a network then plan to replace the whole damn thing shortly thereafter?

  3. Re:NORDUnet had this for years. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    And many swedish apartments can soon get symmetric 100 Mbps (bits) now that Bredbandsbolaget will offer these connections for USD $122 / month. A bit steep for my budget, but I'm one of those that *could* switch. But currently I have a hard time even using up my 10 Mbps since the connection to the server is usually much slower.

  4. where's the EU and other Euro nations? by The+Lynxpro · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I find it weird that all the European Union member states are not part of this project considering there are many top-notch universities in these countries. The same goes for the other advanced non-EU European countries (Iceland, Norway, etc.)...

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    "Right now, somewhere in this world, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love," - Peter Griffin, *Family Guy*
  5. Not if it will be a DIFFERENT network... by PaulBu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... as in, with crypto-signed messages (or even individual packets) going around...

    I am wondering how much spam is going between banks on the SWIFT network (or whatever the proper name for that thing they use to move big $$ around). let me remind you, banks ARE businesses, but they have a bit more at stake than a chance to sell a $10 bottle of Viagra. ;-)

    Paul B.