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Researcher Only High Bandwidth Network

Posted by samzenpus on from the elite-fiber dept.

Icarus1919 writes "A brand-new 10 gigabit per second per user optical fiber network is now available to researchers in the U.S. (compared to Internet2, which offers only 10 gigabits of bandwidth total, regardless of the number of users). The National Lambda Rail, as it is known, is named for the 40 different wavelengths of light it uses to send data within the fiber network. In the past, researchers have complained about the relatively (relative when you're dealing with terabytes of data) small bandwidth they can access to send data, and the addition of the NLR will most likely be a boon to research."

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  1. See? Dubya IS right! by Blahbbs · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There are "Internets"!

  2. Definitely beneficial for Video streaming by slackerny · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think the main application of this improvement is that it could boost the video conferencing applications or video streaming (which has seen so less improvement in the recent days). When talking about 10 Gb/s bandwidth, it does not help anything with our system unless you are dealing with huge amounts of data - like video streaming or conferencing. Also considering the fibre optic communication(FOC) systems it is been quite some time since we knew the potential of the FOC. Seriouly, we had 1Tb/s experimental systems 4 years back and only now do we have a 10Gb/s per user system. make love make: *** No rule to make target `love'. Stop.