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

where's the EU and other Euro nations?

[The Lynxpro]

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.)...

Not if it will be a DIFFERENT network...

[PaulBu]

... 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.