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Bandwidth Challenge Results

Posted by samzenpus on from the greased-lightning dept.

the 1st sandman writes "SC2005 published some results of several challenges including bandwidth utilization. The winner (a Caltech led team of several institutes) was measured at 130 Gbps. On their site you can find some more information on their measurements and the equipment they used. They claimed they had a throughput of several DVD movies per second. How is that for video on demand!"

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  1. Probably not enough DVDs/sec by xtal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I love arbitrary metrics..


    They claimed they had a throughput of several DVD movies per second. How is that for video on demand!"


    Given you might need to serve a few thousand people an hour (or more?), I'd say it's still got awhile to go. Kinda sobering, when you think about it. Shiny discs and station wagons are going to be around for awhile.

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