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NEW NET speed record achieved

edited October 2003 in Science & Tech
Two major research centers announched on Wednesday that they had managed to set a new world speed record for data transmission accross the Internet.

[blockquote]The European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, said the feat was achieved in a nearly 30-minute transmission over 7,000 kilometers (4,350 miles) of network between Geneva and a partner body in California. The transmission doubled the previous top speed.

CERN, whose laboratories straddle the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, said it had sent 1.1 terabytes of data at 5.44 gigabits per second to a lab at the California Institute of Technology, a major world research center, Oct. 1.

This is more than 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection and is also equivalent to transferring a 60-minute compact disc within one second--an operation that takes about eight minutes over a standard broadband connection.

Using current technology, a DVD of a 90-minute film takes some 15 minutes to download from the Internet.
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Harvey Newman of Caltech said the achievement boosted hopes that systems that operate at 10 gigabits per second "will be commonplace in the relatively near future."

The previous fastest transfer--2.38gbps--was achieved in February this year by a joint team from CERN, Caltech, the U.S. Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Linear Accelerator Center at Stanford in California.
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Source - Reuters

Comments

  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2003
    4 words:
    I want that connection
  • MancabusMancabus Charlottesville, VA
    edited October 2003
    5 words:
    High Quality Streaming Pr0n Videos
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Three words:

    Download the internet.
  • TemplarTemplar You first.
    edited October 2003
    First slashdot-immune connection? :o
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited October 2003
    First, need to get one of them new Maxtor 175GB SATA Drives...
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2003
    I'll take 2.
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