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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."
Ahh, but you have to make time to get the data on and off of the tapes. After all this is a computer to computer transfer.
I don't need a million points of light, just two points of multi-mode fiber and a 10 Gig-E router.
The plane might be able to lift 210,000 drives, but my gut tells me that you'd have a hell of a time getting them all to fit in there...
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