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Researchers Break Internet Speed Records
MosiMosi wrote to let us know about a new development on the Internet2 front. Researchers in Tokyo have advanced the speed of the network, breaking records twice in two days back in December of last year. "On Dec. 30 [researchers] sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols. The next day, using modified protocols, the team broke the record again by sending data over the same 20,000-mile path at 9.08 Gbps. That likely represents the current network's final record because rules require a 10 percent improvement for recognition, a percentage that would bring the next record right at the Internet2's current theoretical limit of 10 Gbps."
But can they beat a station wagon full of backup tapes (or DVDs or whatever) yet?
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
So with this newer, faster internet, when your staff sends you an e-Mail at 10 AM Friday, you don't have to wait over the weekend to get it?
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
Ha ha ha *snort* I beat myself up.
Once you start despising the jerks, you become one.
Maybe if they moved from a series of tubes to parallel tubes, they'd get a higher current flow...
Is it sad that I am more likely to recognize you and your posts by your sig than your name or UID?
Marge: "Does anyone need that much porn?"
Homer (drooling): "One million times faster...."
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am sorry, the budget was cut and we had to eliminate the redundant paths. It was too costly and as such we expect you figure out how to get the full 10Gbps out of the single T1 line. Please have the proposal ready by tomorrow, and remember that any solution you come up with should cost no more than your time. Oh, and we are a Windows only shop so you can not suggest OSS solutions.
Thank you,
Your Management.
Internet2 has just gone even faster, breaking the speed of light.
An email has just been sent to a researcher on ARPANET in 1972, who unfortunately doesn't know what "v1@gr@" is or why he would want to "enlarge pens" with it.
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Efforts to make a high quality version of "The Matrix Revolutions" have not succeeded in any time frame.
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*Never* underestimate an Airbus A380-800F. It will carry a 150 tonne payload at 0.85 mach, 6500 miles before refueling. A Hitachi 7K1000 1TB drive weighs in at 700 g. That's around 210,000 TB. Flight at .85 mach will take about 30 hours, let's give them 10 hours for refuelling and maintenance. That's 40 hours. If I'm not mistaken, that's around 60 GB per second. What's that? Around half a TBps?
:)
Beat THAT Internet2!
Feel free to correct my "calculations", as they weren't any such thing!
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
If we assume 60mph average speed for that trip, than a 20,000 mile trip will take 333 hours and 20 minutes or 1,200,000. At 9 GB/s, the network will have transferred 10,800 TB in that amount of time. Assuming dual-layer blu-ray DVDs, each with 50 GB (0.05 TB) of data, the station wagon will have to carry more than 216,000 DVDs for it to win. If each DVD takes up about 3.6 cubic inches (0.1x6x6) or 0.002 cubic feet, the station wagon will need to carry 432 cubic feet of DVDs.
I think the network wins this one.
Ben Hocking
Need a professional organizer?
During a recent attempt I got at least a transfer rate 2.1 TB/s through a common phone line.
Unfortunately the data was just a big string of Zeros...
Does that count? Great compression rate too!