fast enough??

[n7of9]

read this on another forum...WOW!!!

"Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center set a new Net speed record. They transmitted 6.7GB of data (that's about 4 hours of DVD-quality movies) across 6800 miles in just 58 seconds. The uncompressed data was sent at a speed of 923 megabits per second--about 3500 times the speed of a home broadband connection"

pcworld link (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110013,00.asp) ...bottom of the page under Net Speed

[NAJKCUF]

wonder how much that project cost.

[Bruce]

I'm not really sure I understand what the big deal is here...

OC-192s haves existed for years and they push 9.6 gigabits per second.

:confused:

[CareBear]

It's done over Internet2.. not the plain regular internet we all use.
Also typical to lay credit at the US side when it was a transatlantic experiment ;)
Cost was $2.2 million US btw.

[CareBear]

Also the record was broken 6 days ago already :)


Scientists at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have all teamed up to set a new record for sending data from the U.S. to Europe. The researchers were able to accomplish the feat, in part, by using new 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking cards from Intel Corp. The use of standard Ethernet technology to set the records could help pave the way for improved networks in both corporate data centers and into end users homes, researchers said.

The group was able to send 1T byte of data from Sunnyvale, California, to Geneva at a sustained rate of 2.38Gpbs (gigabits per second) for more than one hour, said Harvey Newman, a professor of physics at Caltech. This speed beats the current record by a factor of 2.5 and is equivalent to the data rate needed to send 200 full length DVD movies in one hour or 1 movie in 18 seconds. The researchers, however, have yet to certify the result with Internet2 -- a consortium of 202 universities working on improving networking technology.

The latest record marks the first time that a single TCP (transmission control protocol) stream has made a transoceanic pass at multi-gigabit per second rates, which signals a milestone for commonly used networking technology, Newman said. The breakthrough helps show what can be accomplished with existing Ethernet technology as opposed to turning to new technologies such as Infiniband, which require some network re-architecting

[jmiller]

Not very impressive at all seeing as they had their own pipe, away from the rest of the world. :rolleyes:

[CareBear]

Originally posted by jmiller
Not very impressive at all seeing as they had their own pipe, away from the rest of the world. :rolleyes: How is that important? You don't test race cars in a traffic jam on a highway either to see how fast it will go :D

[tandoc]

somebody didn't watch Men In Black :biggrin2:

[barney]

I'm impressed, I want one:biggrin2:

[trenzterra]

Originally posted by Bruce
I'm not really sure I understand what the big deal is here...

OC-192s haves existed for years and they push 9.6 gigabits per second.

:confused: True, I was thinking of that too.

[CareBear]

Originally posted by trenzterra
True, I was thinking of that too. The point is that it was one single TCP stream from one computer to another across the atlantic and not a couple of hundred/thousand streams all going through the same wire.