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OSL Gets Bandwidth Donation from TDS
kveton writes "The OSL is pleased to announce that TDS Telecom has donated 600 Mbits of connectivity in order to ramp up their mirror infrastructure. The projects hosted at the OSL can now upload to the mirrors co-located in the TDS facilities in Chicago and Atlanta via their main data center in Corvallis, OR."
They're going to need all that bandwith when they get slashdotted.
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Well, your home line is not intended to be utilized 100% all the time, and you would probably not get 1Gbit/s for very long (probably bursted in the beginning) if you and your neighbours tried to use all the bandwith..
The donated 600Mbit/s on the other hand, that is probably a connection that is guaranteed to work under a high load 24/7.
Possibly off-topic, but so many headlines recently use acronyms for things which are possibly unfamiliar, and don't provide a link on the Acronym to the homepage or an entry about whatever-it-is. Some of the stories are starting to look like the old joke, "You got a you-know-what from you-know-who, and you're supposed to take it to you-know-where by you-know when. Wink Wink. Nudge Nudge."
"A Goddess rarely smiles for she is forced by others to be an island unto herself." - Zephiris
What you dont consider is that this kind of bandwith exists only virually.
Yeah, you say thats you are the only on in your street using that fibre.
But how many in your town? How many in your district? use that service?
The total international interconnectivity of japan combined couldnt sustain even thousand of those kind of connections anyway. And while internal routing might be less tight, but the end result (when broadly available) will be the same as in hong-kong: your fancy ultra speed "internet" is nothing more than a fast intranet with undersized internet connection.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
They donated a fast mirror to Sun Freeware, which makes all of us Sun jockey's breathe a little easier.
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