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MasterAkumaMatata - Oct 17, 2003

		MasterAkumaMatata	Oct 17, 2003
		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...

		racketboy	Oct 17, 2003
		oh my

		IceDigger	Oct 17, 2003
		So.... when can I get one?

		racketboy	Oct 17, 2003
		how much will it cost is a better question

		stack99	Oct 17, 2003
		I had heard about this, that is fuckin sweeeeeeeeeet. I wish I had that connection lol

		MasterAkumaMatata	Dec 2, 2004
		link: Researchers set new network speed record...     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.

		Cloud121	Dec 2, 2004
		Nice....

		reX dart: eskimo spy	Dec 2, 2004
		I WANT IT.

		Cloud121	Dec 2, 2004
		Originally posted by reX dart: eskimo spy@Thu, 2004-12-02 @ 03:58 PM I WANT IT. [post=124944]Quoted post[/post] Don't we all...

		ExCyber	Dec 2, 2004
		101 gigabits per second Forget Internet, I'd be thrilled with RAM that fast.

		MasterAkumaMatata	Dec 2, 2004
		Originally posted by ExCyber+Thu, 2004-12-02 @ 08:28 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ExCyber @ Thu, 2004-12-02 @ 08:28 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>     101 gigabits per second Forget Internet, I'd be thrilled with RAM that fast.[post=124966]Quoted post[/post][/b] Here is what the article says regarding the record for data transfer on the internet: <!--QuoteBegin- http://news.com.com/Blazing+a+new+data+spe...l?tag... On the Internet, the record for data transfer is about 4.23gbps..., while the record on Internet2 stands at 6.63gbps.[/quote]

		Alexvrb	Dec 3, 2004
		Originally posted by ExCyber@Thu, 2004-12-02 @ 08:28 PM Forget Internet, I'd be thrilled with RAM that fast. All you need to do is get some higher clocked GDDR3 and you're good to go.

		schi0249	Dec 3, 2004
		The ISP I work for also sells dedicated access. We sell up to a 1Gbps connection. Man, I thought that would be hella fast. But over 5??

		Pearl Jammzz	Dec 5, 2004
		wow.....instead of the connectio being the bottleneck, the compute would, lol. Can a HDD even write that fast!?

		MasterAkumaMatata	Dec 5, 2004
		I'm sure they weren't using just any regular computer.

		ExCyber	Dec 5, 2004
		I'd expect it would be a signal generator built into the terminating equipment for a test mode.

		klakalou	Dec 6, 2004
		Originally posted by MasterAkumaMatata@Mon, 2004-12-06 @ 02:03 AM I'm sure they weren't using just any regular computer. [post=125265]Quoted post[/post] dvd quality p0rn woot :banana

		PUNJABEE	Dec 6, 2004
		How fast is that? I know a gigabit is not a gigabyte... what is the conversion on that? Is it: 1024 gigabits = 1 Gigabyte? If so, that's only like 5 megs a second, no?

		ExCyber	Dec 6, 2004
		Depending on encoding and what actual rate they are measuring it could vary a bit, but generally 8 bits = 1 byte.

		MasterAkumaMatata	Dec 6, 2004
		Originally posted by PUNJABEE@Mon, 2004-12-06 @ 12:00 PM How fast is that? I know a gigabit is not a gigabyte... what is the conversion on that? Is it: 1024 gigabits = 1 Gigabyte? If so, that's only like 5 megs a second, no?[post=125319]Quoted post[/post] 101 gigabits per second = 101,000,000,000 bits/second = 12,625,000,000 bytes/second = 12,329,101.6 KiB.../s = 12,040.1 MiB.../s = 11.76 GiB.../s Note: 1 KiB = 1 kibibyte = 1 kilobinary byte = 2^10 bytes = 1,024 bytes 1 MiB = 1 mebibyte = 1 megabinary byte = 2^20 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes 1 GiB = 1 gibibyte = 1 gigabinary byte = 2^30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes