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Researchers Break Internet Speed Records

apnews.myway.com — Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced Tuesday that the researchers on Dec. 30 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.

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  • pinab, on 10/12/2007, -38/+8Apr 24, 2:58 PM (ET)

    By ANICK JESDANUN
    NEW YORK (AP) - A group of researchers led by the University of Tokyo has broken Internet speed records - twice in two days.
    Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced Tuesday that the researchers on Dec. 30 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.
    However, the Internet2 consortium is planning to build a new network with a capacity of 100 Gbps. With the 10-fold increase, a high-quality version of the movie "The Matrix" could be sent in a few seconds rather than half a minute over the current Internet2 and two days over a typical home broadband line.
    Researchers used the newer Internet addressing system, called IPv6, to break the records in December. Data started in Tokyo and went to Chicago, Amsterdam and Seattle before returning to Tokyo. The previous high of 6.96 Gbps was set in November 2005.
    Speed records under the older addressing system, IPv4, are in a separate category and stand at 8.8 Gbps, set in February 2006.
    The Internet2 is run by a consortium of more than 200 U.S. university. It is currently working to merge with another ultrahigh-speed, next-generation network, National LambdaRail.
    The announcement of the new record was made at the Internet2 consortium's spring meeting, which ends Wednesday in Arlington, Va.
    • audiowizard, on 10/12/2007, -22/+3Super, because sometimes I get bored just sitting and waiting for my downloads...people call and say, 'hey let's go out for a drink' and I have to reply, 'I can't I'm still waiting for my download to finish'. This will change everything!
    • phdaves, on 10/12/2007, -17/+4Isn't Internet2 about censorship and restrictions on content??
    • BobTurtle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26phdaves,
      No. It is about garden weasels, kites, and people who don't know how to do simple google searches to find information.
    • paradox4190, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Whats funny is that even with this, there will still be people using AOL dial up from the disk they got in the mail.
  • Diggtatorship, on 10/12/2007, -6/+47I take one please.
    • rhfb, on 10/12/2007, -18/+3I'll take a whole series of them thank you very much.
    • Icecream, on 10/12/2007, -8/+58Thats alot of Porn
    • InferiorWang, on 10/12/2007, -5/+99I bet they grease their tubes.
    • CrankyPants, on 10/12/2007, -19/+5Yawn . . . wake me when we hit a petabit/sec.
    • headswine, on 10/12/2007, -15/+4My modem is doing just fine thank you. :)
    • incubusnb, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4when asked to comment, The janitor stated: "I watched them, they made the series of tubes connecting each computer over 5 inches wider and added a bigger motor to the fans on each end."

      The series of tubes gets an upgrade
    • kingkilr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Hey, the porn is pilling up, it's not going to download itself!
    • Paranoidmarvin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0personally, I'm fine with 256k....


      and yes, people still have that!
  • sickswaystop, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30about damn time
    • ProtonageNet, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35I don't think it will be coming any time soon. It will take years if not even a whole decade to be adopted by American communication companies because they have "no money" and aren't bugged enough by their users to care enough. You're better off moving to Denmark where they sell off this kind of new technology.
    • playthev, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56would you even be able to write that information onto the harddrive at those speeds?
    • Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31The best SATA can pump out now is 3Gbps, and I seriously doubt many hard drives can fully use that bandwidth. For that matter, a lot of people are still using PATA connections, which doesn't even come close to SATA.

      It'll be some time before the average consumer computer is capable of working at these high speeds... and even longer... much longer, before ISPs (especially in North America) start offering anything close to this.

      Besides, this is Internet2... a totally different network. Considering the volume of traffic our Internet sees every second, it would be incredibly hard to get these sort of speeds on a public world-wide network.
    • msgyrd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7While it's kinda cool, it's completely pointless for consumers right now. Internet2 was built for the sole purpose of tranferring ungodly amounts of research data between universities, so this isn't much of a surprise either.

      No, hard drives cannot write information that fast, but you can write to RAM that fast. The article also didn't say how much information was sent. I'm not sure how they benchmark it, but sending a 10mb file in a fraction of a second would give you a higher Gbps than sending 15 Gb file in a few seconds. Burst speeds are usually faster than sustained speeds, so more infomation about this would be interesting.
    • TrevorBradley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is still point to point communication. It doesn't make sense to have 9 Gbps to the home when all the users will be sharing a 9Gbps (or perhaps multiples of that) from a router upstream.

      Bandwidth isn't the problem these days... Hard Drive and Removable Media storage are. I think I'd rather have a thousandfold increase in media size and keep my slower 5Mbps home connection than have 9Gbps but only 1TB of hard drives (which this would fill in about 20 minutes)

      In 1996, I remember taking my entire collection of floppies and burning them to two $5 CDs, literally a 500 fold increase in media size. Less than 10 years before that (in 1988) I was using 3.5" 1.44MB floppies which cost about $4 a pop Canadian.

      It's been another 10 years, where's my $5, 2TB ultra-dvd-r, dammit? ;)

      (I know, no commercial use for such a technology...)
  • retardojesus, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14let then pr0n jokes begin
  • growlzor, on 10/12/2007, -20/+7I remember my good old dial up connection. Someone was always on when I needed to use the phone so I would hit a bunch of numbers on the dial in order to disconnect them, then while I was on the phone I would here "Who's on the phone!?"
    • stou, on 10/12/2007, -2/+113Haha, back in 95 or something AOL upgraded their modem in my town from 2400 to 14k and when I got back from vacation and logged in... I almost ***** myself... I thought it was fast.

      Yes I had AOL in 95, I wont apologize for it.
  • imeddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Dec.30th? Why did they wait so long to announce it? Did they win some sort of prize at the Internet2 consortium's meeting or something?
  • chingy1788, on 10/12/2007, -44/+1My Uni provides users with a 40Gbps line to the internet... but through Uni Comps... I tested it... over 50 km...
    using
    www.speedtest.net
    • clesch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25That would be roughly 13 times faster than SATA II.

      Nice "Uni Comps" there.
    • KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Considering his name is Chingy, I highly doubt he even went to uni.
    • profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+94.0Gbps is not 40Gbps. And I still have a harrd time believing 4.0Gbps.
    • AngelBunny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3you probably mean 40megbit/s which is very close to t3. my high school was on 100megbit/s duplex, but the highest bandwidth i ever got was about 86megbit/s on a speed test.
    • foobar5892, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You should talk to the guys over at Verizon Mobile.
    • chingy1788, on 10/12/2007, -0/+140Mb damn it
      stupid type-Os

      maybe another typo, its more like 40MB
  • Steffyson, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Amazing.. I still work on a 64Kbps phone line connection!
  • thebigkevdogg, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1and right when i'm about to leave my university internet2 connection...
  • graystar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29Hollywood, did you see that? Time to innovate while you have the chance.
  • kahlessreborn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+82Once upon a midnight dreary,
    while I websurfed, weak and weary,
    Over many a strange and spurious website of hot chicks galore,
    While I clicked my fav’rite bookmark,
    suddenly there came a warning,
    And my heart was filled with mourning,
    mourning for my dear amour.
    ‘Tis not possible, I muttered,
    give me back my cheap hardcore! —
    Quoth the server, “404″.
  • damazepro, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Please Please pretty please...can i test it too for let's say couple of minutes??
    ....zzzzzzziing.... 'Yes you may!!!'
    ....woooohoooooooooo
    PirateBay ahoy....;)
  • sporg, on 10/12/2007, -39/+1There is nothin wrong with the current system and I dont see why we need such speeds. Streaming media should remain on television not infest the internet. Internet2 is marketed as a faster better system when really it is just a network that will be easier for them to CONTROL.

    would you like to know more?
    • Dundasbro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28Tell that to us ***** Australian's. We'll take anything right now.
    • KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Well, if you vote for Labour, they plan to put in the latest internet tech across the country. Vote Labour!
      BTW: to all Non-Aussies, Australian Labour is the of the American Democrats. And the Liberals are the equivalent of the American Republicans.

      @ sporg.
      The smart thing is to actually provide a source when you make such a extreme claim.
    • Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14your right sporg, and intel should just stop making faster processes because the current ones are fast enough for what we are doing right now
      gfx cards are powerful enough to play current games on max, better tell nvidia to stop the RnD hey, I mean its not like the future will bring new ways to utilise increased power and flexibility
    • vdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21New Zealand doesn't even have ADSL2. :(

      Stupid lack of competition.
    • msgyrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Uh...just a little paranoid? Internet2 isn't for control, it was created to send research data between universities, and isn't even open to the public. Sometimes things developed there trickle down to the real internet, but you won't ever use the internet2 at home because it's not really a network in the same sense that the 'regular' internet is, it's a consortium of universities and technology companies to test and develop high speed technologies.

      On top of that, internet2 uses standard ipv4 and ipv6 protocals and standard TCP and UDP connections. If you're going to be paranoid, at least be paranoid about something you're not completely ignorant about. But then again, I guess if you were educated, you wouldn't get to have as much fun trolling the internet.
    • modelcadet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you could somehow validate your statements, I most certainly would like to know more. As it stands, however, I see no reason why better infrastructure is a bad (or even trivial) thing. While it's difficult for many to see uses for such speeds, they invariably exist.
      While yes, video data seems the obvious reason for upgrading the tubes, please remember information flows both ways.
    • h3ndrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Run for the hills, the future is coming!
  • coldskool, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1***** a
  • arjie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35Damn it all, they said *internet* speed records. Otherwise, I could match their speed by moving the 320GB drive to my other computer in 35 seconds. How's that for speed!
    • Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+65bah, not as fast as me throwing my 500gb into the other room
    • zongamin, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3So you used exactly the same joke eh
    • vagarach, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The data has to remain intact for any sort of 'transfer' to take place. Maybe if you threw it encased in some thick foam or something :D.
    • msgyrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8UPS overnight shipping has an insane bandwidth, at a cheap cost. The drawback is you have to send several terabytes of data at once to make the $/Gb cost effective, and the latency is really bad.
  • ModestMoby, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1High Def Porn here we come weeeeeeeeeeeeee
  • xabstract, on 10/12/2007, -17/+1this may be the one single world record....that will never get you laid.
    • KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Having the largest tumor, longest fingernails or the no genitals records kinda trumps it.
  • ButterBuddha, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I assume this fiber network won't be compatible or connected to Verizon's FIOS system...right?
  • FUBAROVERiDE, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2forgive me if im missing some there, but it seems to me this speed was decimated ages ago.

    with 101 gigabits per sec
    http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1734241,00.asp

    maybe theres a difference in methods, or maybe its the distance is the issue, but still.. if we are just talking about speed of sending data
    • All4not, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This record is over about 10x farther distance. 20,000 miles is much farther than around 2,000 miles from Pitt to LA.

      The question is what is the latency on these questions?
    • bneuman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Also, the 101GBPS was accomplished using a custom protocol designed by Internet2 Engineers. This article says they hit 7.67gbps using standard protocols.

      Now, if they were able to build their own network, then we'll see unheard of speeds, but that will never make mainstream.
    • bantamw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think a few people have hit the nail on the head here. We're seeing the limitations of standard protocols here. To go much above 7Gb/s we're going to have to move up to a newer and more speed efficient protocol set - TCP/IP, for example, has major limitations out of the box, at these speeds. As already stated, there are speeds achieved with special protocols, but most people are using normal protocols. Time for a sea change?
  • godsdead, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2what the hell,so if im running 8mbps.. how the HELL would they do this..? 0_O
  • ayam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3More depth article :

    http://digg.com/tech_news/New_Internet2_Land_Speed_Record_30_000_km_path_7_time_zones_9_08_Gbps
    http://www.wide.ad.jp/news/press/20050506-LSR2-e.html
  • rutski, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4rogers and sympatico would still limit bandwidth speeds to a crawl...pricks.
  • ubuntuedgy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I get 39,000+ kb/s from my university, but compared to these test results that is nothing!

    http://www.speedtest.net/result/117728586.png

    • Negyxo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2*mumble sonofabitch mumble*

      but the real question is: Are torrrents blocked at all?
  • keruha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Anyone remember I2hub?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2hub

    Those were the days...
  • IamTheProfessor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+227.67 gigaBITS = .95875 gigaBYTES
  • JosepBadu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I remember upgrading my 50 baud modem on my Vic20 (Using VIPXL!) to a 300 baud modem. I thought that it could not get any faster, as the text from my BBS would scroll much too fast to read.

    Ahh the days....
  • jimcarrey363, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4So using my methods of comparison... when you purchase a cable modem with bandwidth of up to ~5MB you can download at about 500kb/sec at times.

    So if the same is true for this .... that's about a few MB/sec ?

    That could've been written better but the point being that potential bandwidth doesn't mean ***** because you will never get near that in regular use.
    • forcedfx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Jim, your numbers are way off. 9.08 Gbps is a lot more than 5Mbps.
    • Katana314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, I see his point. The bandwidth is limited by the sending connection. Most download sites won't even use up your full bandwidth. For me, the only things that have are NVidia driver downloads, sometimes bittorrent, and Steam downloads.
    • AngelBunny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Katana314
      this advance in speed is for backbone lines not home users.

      in other words if this advance was currently implemented into the normal internet today we would all notice the speed difference even if our internet connections are capped at the same speed. a site you got 500kB/s from earlier might now give you 800kB/s on the same internet connection. connecting to asian web sites who give an average of 24kB/s to people in the USA could jump up well past 400kB/s.
    • SuperCow1127, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1B != b

      Key distinction.
    • TrevorBradley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just to jump in here, Canadian Cable ISPs are now offering a 25Mbps service. All the reviews I've seen to date people end up returning it because they can't pull data down any faster, and it costs twice as much.

      I think I'll upgrade from my currrent 5Mbps($40/mo) to 10Mbps($50/mo), but I won't consider the exorbitant 25Mbps ($100/mo)
  • mrdctaylor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Ha. I saw that award presented yesterday. In fact, I am sitting in a session in the Internet2 Spring Meeting right now. The guy who accepted it looked like a Japanese Einstein. Craziest hair I've ever seen.
  • digitallysick, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2You at those speeds, they had to hit up some bittorrent!
  • lcarsdeveloper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4512kbps with 20GB per month download limit sucks, but it's all I can afford (I'm in Australia). This article just pushes the knife in further (well not so much the article as the comments from worldwide broadband users posting their speeds). But broadband speed and infrastructure isn't very important, at least to our Prime Minister John Howard. Why is it in so many countries the people in charge of broadband internet are too old to know what it is? **cough** tubes! **cough**
  • mrdctaylor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Keep in mind that this is Internet2. It is a special network only accessible from universities and research institutions. This was not over the common internet.
  • BuckCynnie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Good god, with that you can use someone else's video card or even memory for your machine that is half across the world. Sign me up! I hope it's only around $40 dollars a month for that bandwidth.
  • Pacificblue, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0OLD Story!!!
    • audiowizard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nuh uhhhh...it says it ended today, see '...The announcement of the new record was made at the Internet2 consortium's spring meeting, which ends Wednesday in Arlington, Va."
  • rebelyell2k5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Oh man that'd transfer my 60 gig HD in under 7 seconds. damnnnnn
  • HairyPoter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9let see if I understand. Today we have what is called "broadband" that is a crappy Internet speed that without all voodoo help you can get, do not gets speeds above 6 Mbps for downloading and 640 kbps for uploading, even promising 24 Mbps (ADSL2+) - while guys in South Korea pays 25 bucks a month and gets fiber optical at 100 Mbps bi-directional real speed.

    In Occident, telecom execs have their pants crapped when someone mention high speed for the masses, as they want to get more money without investing a single dime and if people get real high speed they are ***** and will have to spend money to invest in new networks or, at least use the network they already have and is not used fully.

    So, point is: as telecoms will never implement high speed Internet, is this high speed Internet something like the crappy concept car?
    NOTE: I have already seen 3,867,654 concept cars - but who is counting? - in the last 10 years - from hydrogen powered to fart powered - and none have been produced yet.
  • Deuterium, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Who cares? I'm still using my 12.8 dial-up Modem to surf. Works for me.
  • shinzul33t, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0let the p0rn flow
  • ripstuntz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Do you understand how many things this could revolutionize? The pr0n industry for starters....
  • VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Until even the best U.S. internet speeds stop sucking compared to the rest of the world, this is meaningless.
  • kevincw01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11.135 megabytes per second or DVD in 4.17 seconds and DVD9 in 8.33 seconds. Unfortunately, downloading an HD-DVD would take an incredibly slow 22.06 seconds. And lets not even talk about the painstaking time it will take to d/l a Bluray DVD at 30.84 seconds!!
    • TrevorBradley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1megabytes != gigabytes.

      Full size DVD's are approximately 8.5 Gigabytes, or 8,500 Megabytes. That's about 14 CDs, 9 USB keys, or perhaps 7,000 floppy disks.
  • tybris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So what? That's kind of your standard fiber optic link speed. Only the distance is kind of impressive, although not really with an unused network.
  • Sendss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You guys realize that the 'filth' like the digg community won't be part of internet2 right?
    That's pretty much the reason it's being created... to get away from the chaotic internet and onto their nice peaceful one that's under total control.
  • SubZ3r0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1internet 2 is interesting how can you have more then 1gb per second without a 1tb ethernet connection or something equivilant.
  • Johntp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If you took 3 monkeys and each had them take four bananas. The time it would take for them to cross the street would be more than the time that this speed internet could send each atom of each banana as a byte across the world.

    For instance, if one single molecule of h20 has 3 atoms therefore the computer could generate this as 3 bytes, a banana would have tons of atoms. And this internet could send all the "bytes" of the atoms across the world in less time than it took the monkeys to cross the street!
    • TrevorBradley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3100% *****. You have no sense of scale of how small atoms are.

      The halfway point of volume between an atom, and all the water on planet earth is about 7mm, maybe a shotglass full.

      In other words, the number of molecules of water in a shotglass is about the same as the number of shotglasses of water in all the earth's oceans.

      There are about 3x10^25 molecules of water in a liter of water. Let's be generous and say they're small bananas and have about 10^25 molecules in them. That's 10 million billion billion molecules.

      Or by your own analogy, 10,000,000,000,000,000 GB. At 10GB/s, it would take 10^24 seconds, or something like 10^17 years. The universe is 10,000,000 times younger than that.

      Internet2 doesn't hold a ***** candle.
  • Dmon123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Buried for the stupid comments, Sorry to anyone with an I.Q. over 20. I swear, Digg is becoming more like youtube everyday...D:
    • NecroSexy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Copy and paste this message...woops, sry, thought i was in youtube, my bad
  • dnostalgia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Porn would virtually fly into your hard drive.
  • lostomnibus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0DUDE! The RIAA would never be able to catch me with speeds like that!
  • princessangry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2well the internet 2 thing is actually a ploy. they get the speeds high and do this but it will be a new internet that is full of big brother. it is also an excuse to cisco to sell thier anti-net neutrality equipment. they also want to totally scrap the internet and rebuild and make it porn free and locked down. it will be a nanny state 'internet' .beware of this.

    also the MPAA and RIAA are going to be partners in it too, so no illegal w4r3z and pr0n and mp3s. also it will be more corporate controlled. And you will have content approval boards and stuff like that.

    linkage:
    http://www.techspot.com/news/18686-MPAA-and-RIAA-participate-in-Internet2-project.html

    and a forum thread:http://www.flexbeta.net/main/print.php?id=14736

    and more linkage: http://www.vicezilla.com/views/index.php?blog=1&title=knock_knock_who_s_there_big_brother&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

    again don't belive the hype for internet 2 unless you wanna be forced to visit only sites like cnn, aol, msn, and other corporate only sites.
    • Sendss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@princessangry

      Yeah it's pretty curious that the RIAA would support higher speed connections.

      Internet 2 will be the death internet freedom.
  • Sendss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The Internet... now with more fascism.

    If you see what the telco's have planned with internet 2 you wouldn't be getting all happy about the speed of it.
  • wildone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0we already have 1000 meg to the internet here.

    http://largebusiness.bellsouth.com/products_detail.aspx?sct_id=4&ctg_id=38&item_id=90
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