arstechnica.com — Internet2 now rockets along at 100Gbps, and it also allows researchers to set up dedicated 10Gbps point-to-point links on the fly. Want to transfer a third of a terabyte in the time it takes to order a burger? Now you can.
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sirhomerOct 11, 2007
My Linux ISO mirror is plugged into Internet2, in fact most University mirrors are. When you sync mirrors a 5 GB ISO typically takes under a minute to transfer. It's nuts.
nm42Oct 11, 2007
It would be interesting to know what protocol they were using to accomplish these speeds - and what kinds of latencies the network exhibits. UDT won some transfer speed contest a few months ago, and it was doing just under 10Gbit/sec:<a class="user" href="http://udt.sourceforge.net/">http://udt.sourceforge.net/</a>But it only really performs well on links with higher latency then say a local network - on a LAN where latency and loss don't typically factor in, you can smoke it with plain old TCP.
bigsimOct 11, 2007
And you'd fit them on 16666 football fields.
catskinOct 11, 2007
having broadband speeds that're bottlenecked by hard disk bandwidth, as opposed to being bottlenecked by the provider? I'll have that please. I have no doubt It'll be expensive for the time being.
fearlessfxOct 11, 2007
2.6 DVD's of Pr0n per second!