New Internet2 Land Speed Record 338
SquadBoy writes "An international team set a new record for Internet performance by transferring the equivalent of an entire compact disc's contents across more than 7608 miles (12,272 km) of network in 13 seconds. The rate of 401 megabits per second achieved in transferring 625 megabytes of data from Fairbanks, Alaska to Amsterdam in the Netherlands is over 8000 times greater than the fastest dial-up modem."
Land speed record (Score:2, Informative)
It traveled at about 3,345,350 KM/H, or about 5,352,560 MPH...
Re:Does Internet2 use standard IPv6? (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.internet2.edu
Why is a seperated network?
You think they are going to spend all that money on a serious research network only to let Joe Public use al, the bandwidth on pr0n?
Bandwidth Challenge SC2001 (Score:3, Informative)
Now, admittedly, it wasn't intercontinental, only from Oakland, Ca to Denver, Co....:D
good prices on workshops (Score:3, Informative)
Some Calculations (Score:3, Informative)
When I drive home from work in a few minutes: 125TB (10^15 Synapses, Von Neumann et al.) at 85 Mph during rush hour (yeah, that manic...it's me) = 4.7 Tb*Km/s
The Boing full of DVD's calculates as follows: 4.7GB * 170.5 Cubic meters cargo space / 175 Cubic cm jewel case * 912 Km/h = 662,515Gb * 0.25Km/s = 1160 TB*Km/s
Even faster records: HDTV at 1.5Gbs (Score:3, Informative)
Re:It has to be said... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:that's fast (Score:4, Informative)