Researchers Break Internet Speed Records 140
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."
But... (Score:5, Funny)
and so when your staff sends you an e-Mail... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:and so when your staff sends you an e-Mail... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:But... (Score:2, Funny)
Improvement (Score:3, Funny)
Ha ha ha *snort* I beat myself up.
tubes? (Score:4, Funny)
Obligatory Simpsons quote (Score:5, Funny)
Homer (drooling): "One million times faster...."
Re:Why is the theoretical limit 10 Gbps? (Score:5, Funny)
Thank you,
Your Management.
Re:and so when your staff sends you an e-Mail... (Score:5, Funny)
Your staff doesn't send email. They send internets.
This just in.. (Score:5, Funny)
An email has just been sent to a researcher on ARPANET in 1972, who unfortunately doesn't know what "v1@gr@" is or why he would want to "enlarge pens" with it.
High quality movies! (Score:5, Funny)
Efforts to make a high quality version of "The Matrix Revolutions" have not succeeded in any time frame.
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Never underestimate... (Score:5, Funny)
Beat THAT Internet2!
Feel free to correct my "calculations", as they weren't any such thing!
Assume 60 mph (Score:3, Funny)
If we assume 60mph average speed for that trip, than a 20,000 mile trip will take 333 hours and 20 minutes or 1,200,000. At 9 GB/s, the network will have transferred 10,800 TB in that amount of time. Assuming dual-layer blu-ray DVDs, each with 50 GB (0.05 TB) of data, the station wagon will have to carry more than 216,000 DVDs for it to win. If each DVD takes up about 3.6 cubic inches (0.1x6x6) or 0.002 cubic feet, the station wagon will need to carry 432 cubic feet of DVDs.
I think the network wins this one.
Re:Gee I'm impressed... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:But... (Score:5, Funny)
Your capacity estimate is way, way too low. My DVD test samples can get 15 discs in a space 1"x5"x5" (e.g., 25in^3). There are 1728in^3 in a cubic foot, which translates to about 69 such stacks, for a total of 1035 discs per cubic foot. With its rear seat folded down the 2008 Volkswagen Jetta SportsWagen has 66.9ft^3 of storage space (source [leftlanenews.com]). We'll call it 67ft^3 for the sake of the math, and assume that you've crammed a few discs in the glovebox. This brings us to a total of 69,345 discs in our datawagon. If we use dual layer blu-ray discs at 50gb/disc that comes to 3.07 petabytes (x10^15). I'll use your 200 hour delivery time, which means we have an overall speed of 269.09GB/s (3467250000000000 bytes / 12000 seconds). You can keep your internet2, although I -will- cede that it gets better gas mileage.
I would like to posit a new theorum: Advances in storage space and vehicle capacity will always increase such that a sufficiently well-fueled station wagon will have faster throughput than the latest advances in network architecture.
Re:Assume 60 mph (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:Airbus wins (Score:2, Funny)
Unfortunately the data was just a big string of Zeros...
Does that count? Great compression rate too!
Re:Confusing bandwidth with latency... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Never underestimate... (Score:3, Funny)