On Wednesday 15 October 2003, researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the California Institute of Technology set a new Internet speed record. The transmission between Switzerland and California (4,350 miles or 7,000 kilometers) lasted 30 minutes and sent 1.1 terabytes of data at 5.44 gigabits per second. This is fast enough to transmit the contents of a CD in about 1 second and a feature-length movie on DVD in about 10 seconds. The Internet link is more than 20,000 times as fast as a typical home broadband connection. For details see http://news.com.com/2100-1034_3-5092064.html?tag=n...




		
		

	

	
	

		
		

			On Tuesday 30 November 2004, researchers moved data between labs in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Los Angeles, California at a sustained rate of 101 gigabits per second for a few minutes. The 90-minute demonstration set a new speed record and captured the Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge for the second year running. The same group won last year with a speed of 23.2 gigabits per second. The data was transmitted using the Fast TCP protocol developed at the University of California.
		
		

	

	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by reX dart: eskimo spy@Thu, 2004-12-02 @ 03:58 PM



I WANT IT.



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Forget Internet, I'd be thrilled with RAM that fast.
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