BIC-TCP 6,000 Times Quicker Than DSL

An anonymous reader writes "North Carolina researchers have developed an Internet protocol, subsequently tested and affirmed by Stanford, that hums along at speeds roughly 6,000 times that of DSL. The system, called BIC-TCP, beat out competing protocols from Caltech, University College London and others. The results were announced at IEEE's annual communications confab in Hong Kong." Update: 03/16 04:46 GMT by T : ScienceBlog suggests this alternate link while their site is down.

oops

[poot_rootbeer]

Looks like the server just got Slashdotter 6,000 times faster than normal.

New Protocol???!!!!

[ptelligence]

Use it to host your blog server..immediately? You've been slashdotted.

ob. simpsons ref.

[ejaw5]

Nerd: I've developed a program that downloads porn from the interet a million times faster than normal

Marge: Who would need that much porn

Homer: [drools]...oohhh..1 million times faster..

Great measurement

[TheOnlyCoolTim]

There's 640 kbps DSL and there's 3 Mbps DSL...

I want it in LOC/sec.

Tim

Re:Protocol faster than DSL?

[dreamchaser]

That was my first thought. Isn't that like saying that they've invented gasoline that goes faster than a car?

Re:Protocol faster than DSL?

[wankledot]

Better yet, they've invented tires for the space shuttle that are capable of going 100k times faster than regular tires. I want some of those tires for my Pinto! They'll make it that much faster!

Re:Protocol faster than DSL?

[Cynikal]

thats what i was gonna say... last i heard DSL was physical connection method..

in other news AMD has developed a new architecture 80 billion times faster than grapefruit

Yeah but...

[gilmet]

Does it beat out AOL 9.0 Topspeed technology?

And so...

[Tuxedo Jack]

This becomes just another fast way to piss the RIAA off.

In other news..

[RajivSLK]

I have developed a super fast car that is 6,000 times quicker than your driveway, an delicious orange that is 6,000 times tastier than your tongue and a new form of water that is 6,000 wetter than your garden hose!

Please send lots of money in the form of grants to
super inventor guy
123 fake street
v3n3r9

Gigabit Ethernet?

[Animats]

They've discovered gigabit Ethernet! Wow!

They left out a word

[rock_climbing_guy]

It's 6000x faster than MSN DSL, isn't it?

Re:Protocol faster than DSL?

[Rorschach1]

But I don't know what the heck DSL is supposed to have to do with it; the physical *medium* consumer DSL uses (copper POTS lines) sure as hell isn't going to support a 9Gbps connection...

Sure it will... provided you're not more than three feet from the central office.

not steam, sonique!

[Kiyooka]

Data are collected at a remote location and need to be shipped to labs where scientists can perform analyses and create high-performance visualizations of the data.

Visualizations of the data? So what, are they gonna all smoke up and watch Rabbit-Hole or Smear while "analysing" the data?

So What....

[Sophrosyne]

I've invented a pen that can write 6000 times faster than a pencil.
(fine print: super human strength required, in order to reach maximum speed alterations of the laws of physics may be necessary.)

Sorta. It's based on photo-optics.

[Kiyooka]

To be more exact, it's the bonfire system they used in Return of the King to signal to Rohan to come to Gondor.

It's called the Bonfire-Utilizing Light System Hardware Infrastructure Technology (aka BULSHIT).

You forgot pigeon

[Anonymous Coward]

Copper, Glass, Silicon and Pigeon

Re:Time to Implimentation?

[ackthpt]

It would be interesting to know how far out an implimentation of such a protocol on a large scale is.

As we all know, pr0n drives the technology bubble. Indicate that the average luser could watch internet pr0n real time over a 56K modem and it's just a matter of time.

Re:Propagation delays

[jimbosworldorg]

You are correct sir. Thankfully, your correction of my own dumb mistake only made my original point more valid, so ... um ... LOOK! A BEAR!

Re:Great measurement

[Zone-MR]

LOCs/second rely partially on SI units. Personally I prefer deciLOCs/fortnight.

Re:Protocol faster than DSL?

[Wakkow]

Is that going to make my grandma's grapefruit tree obsolete?

timothygate, a dark day for 'geeks'

[mynameis (mother ...]

A mistake of this magnitude really calls for the removal of ALL of his geek-points, immediate surrender of any ssh keys, termination of all accounts on any non-windows machines, immediate discontinuation of WEP encryption, reversion to SSID "netgear", and unrestricted enablement of "File & Printer Sharing".

Unless he can demonstrate how a Honda can get more people somewhere than then the highway they now use... Well actually more like the license plate and turn signals on a honda but I'll let him off easy :)

Strange Jab...

[ciroknight]

Ever notice how the "Newest, High Speed Internet" is always being developed around particle accelerators? Maybe they really are trying to change the speed of light ;)

Forget lightspeed

[Anonymous Coward]

They jumped straight to ludicrous speed.

Re:Protocol faster than DSL?

[iminplaya]

I want some of those tires for my Pinto! They'll make it that much faster!

Yeah, maybe you'll be able to out run the fire in your gas tank. :-)

BIC-TCP

[iminplaya]

"connects first time, every time."

Re:Propagation delays: quantum teleporting

[trompete]

I'm more of a cup and string kind of guy! ;)

Re:Cheap Bandwidth

[Tailhook]

there are protocols that are being used by the likes of cisco that make a 56k modem faster than broadband. Why is it not being implimented? The broadband companies need to make the money back from the investment in their infrastructure.

"Detroit" has a 100mpg carburetor that oil companies suppress to maintain price.

"Alternative" medicine is rejected by "Western" medicine to preserve medical monopolies.

Solar power if so cheap and efficient that it can easily provide for all our energy needs, but is prevented from being adopted to maintain "power company" profits.

Unions are the source of all progress but have been ruined by business.

NASA is an aerospace subsidy and ignores scientists to fund "big budget" projects like the Space Shuttle.

America hoards food that could eliminate starvation planet wide.

The media is controlled by any one of; corporate interests, right wing Christians or left wing socialists.

The Cold War was created to justify the "Military Industrial Complex."

Power lines, cell phones and chlorine are causing a cancer epidemic. ...and now Cisco has a "protocol" that makes a 56k modem faster than "broadband."

You think that's good?

[aled]

My /dev/null is still faster in uploads.

OH THATS JUST GREAT!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Now my ISP Can shut me down for abusing Bandwidth after about 30 seconds......

Re:Ack...

[Rallion]

No. Unlike this, the Kessel Run can be explained in a way that makes sense.

Re:Propagation delays

[SETIGuy]

My ping to Ohio from Minneapolis was 40 MS with Comcast, and now it is 120 MS with RoadRunner.

40 Megasiemens? Don't you also need to know the capacitance and inductance of the connection in order to figure out the ping time from that?

% units

You have: 40 MS
You want: years
conformability error
40000000 A^2 s^3 / kg m^2
31556926 s

299,792,458 m/s

[Anonymous Coward]

or 186282.397 miles per second. Thank you very much.

Define Irony

[kpwoodr]

Irony == a website about speeding up internet traffic burning through all their bandwidth and having to shut down.

Re:It already IS implemented.

[Jodka]

"That way you'll be able to make better use of fat pipes when you can finally get them."

According to an email I received today they are already available and no prescription is required.

Re:Warrent some (lots of) explanation

[drinkypoo]

Eventually, mark my words, we will all have fat, fat OC-192-style connections coming into our houses and our computers will be participating in many and varied p2p networks swapping whatever the hell it is we're swapping all the time, because people will want to do this shit and technology marches on so they can keep selling stuff to people who keep forking over fistfuls of cash so they can buy it, by which I mean you and I. People are greedy and so they will keep inventing new stuff so they can sell it, it's the face-stuffing american way right? Anyway I like it because I like playing video games and they keep getting better and better, so I'm really not bitching or anything. Technology is dandy, especially when it pays the bills.

The only pity is that we're going to have all this stuff a really stunningly long time after they promise it to us. Big corporations treat us like battered spouses, they really do. At least when they plant a shiner on us it's a walkman or a big screen TV or something. But i'm looking forward to being able to download at 2.4GBps (aggregate). When the 8.9TB holo-video discs come out, I'll be glad to be able to download the 6.2TB rip in a reasonable period of time.

I bet the latest geforce is still going to cost more than the whole rest of my damned system, though :(

Re:It's not like it matters...

[sepsism]

www.scienceblog.com/community/article2473.html Bandwidth Limit Exceeded The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. Apache/1.3.29 Server at www.scienceblog.com Port 80 oh the irony

Re:Protocol faster than DSL?

[JudgeFurious]

Yep, or as it popped into my mind "You've never heard of the Millenium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs"

Re:It already IS implemented.

[WinterpegCanuck]

When you CAN rent something over 6 Gbps, and you want to routinely use it all for a single TCP connection

Dude, my computer can barely talk to my ram that fast . . . . I don't need the next paris hilton video quite that quickly.

Re:Time to Implimentation?

[anti-trojan]

Lucky you. My coffeemaker consumes electricity.