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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."
Fast porn from US Russia and China thanks
TFA says its "155 million bytes per second."
The IT section color scheme sucks.
Well using the big 'B' is clear if its realy what you mean. Too often I see the two mixed up.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
UT2K3 perhaps? ;)
;)
It would be interesting to learn some Russian and Chinese swear words.
So let's see, we've got a 100MBps fat pipe direct from the heartland of the U.S. to the largest communist nation in the world, but I still can't get a direct flight from Miami to a communist country 90 miles off our shore???
I went to the city because I wished to live without deliberation.
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"
Wow, stunning. You don't know what you're talking about.
The "B" is capitalized here for a reason. It's Bytes, not bits.
And if you were to RTFA, you'd find:(emphasis mine)
A wide-area-network at well over 1Gbps (that's bits) is nothing to sneeze at.
From the same article:
Once you start talking about DVD-per-second rates of data, you've got something.
- Peter
INsigNIFICANT
Meanwhile, many companies, from small businesses to worldwide corporations, are spending a lot of money to fight spam and other problems. I see a need for many large businesses to get together and build their own network, an "Internet-3" so to speak. They would still have security concerns, but because most of the network's traffic will be business related, the signal to noise ratio will be much better.
With wireless access becoming more popular, I even see the normal consumer providing pieces of the Internet. This network, the original Internet, might eventually become the place where a lot of garbage goes around, while private worldwide networks might eventually keep things clean.
Of course, once all these networks become large, I can see connections made between them, and that will defeat the whole purpose.
Of course capital B is a standard for Bytes. People are just ignorant to the fact. It doesn't make it any less true.
As of this week China can be officially declared a FORMER communist country. The upper house introduced a bill that is sure to pass guarenteeing private property rights. This is the end of any idea of communism in China and the beginning of their own brand of socialist capatalism more along the lines of Europe.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
Oh. Except in this case, the article itself is wrong.
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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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Close, but it is a country ruled by the military backed elite for the corporations with no rights given to the individual. We have a word for this merging of totalitarianism and corporatism: fascism. The only deviation from the standard definition of fascism is the absence of a single, demigod-like leader (ie. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin). Though it could be argued that the memory of Mao serves this purpose.
Regardless, the person who compared China to Europe is spectacularly stupid. Unless they meant Europe of the 1930s.
Serve Gonk.
So people are talking about how this network will be free from spam and various other sociopathic Internet behavior. Maybe we could create another network and all pretend to use it instead of the Internet, and trick the spammers into leaving the real Internet for the new one! We could even get on the spammer network every once in a while and bitch about all the spam just to keep leading them on. Dude that would be so cool.
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