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Researchers Break Internet Speed Records

Posted by Zonk on from the hey-you-yeah-you-using-firefox-pull-over dept.

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."

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  1. Re:But... by ect5150 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Across a 20,000-mile path, I'm starting to bet on the network.

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  2. Re:But... by drinkypoo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is there some more mass-efficient storage medium?)

    My guess for the best today is MicroSD. It would be horrendously expensive, but you can get 2GB MicroSD cards. You'd have to amass a lot of MicroSD cards to have the same mass as a CD and it takes only five of them to out-store a dual layer DVD.

    It would take some 25 of them to equal a Blu-Ray disc. Not sure which would win that competition.

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  3. Airbus wins by benhocking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But the calculations do need correction. :) 210,000 TB in 40 hours = 1,458 GB/s or 1.458 TB/s.

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