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."

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

[mindstrm]

The standard naming, the only reliable one, is BITS per second.

You don't talk about communication gear in terms of bytes. You use bits. Ethernet is 10 million bits per second (or 100 or 1000 or 10000). A t1 is 1544000 bits/second. An E1 is 2000000 bits /second (forgive my rounding).

Modem speeds like 2400bps and 56kbps are in bits per second.

Firewire is 800mbps.. bits per second.

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

And the prefixes are metric, too....M=1000000 K=1000 etc.