Internet speed record Thread

Physicists smash internet speed record
Last Updated Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:10:49

GENEVA - Researchers have more than doubled the world speed record for internet data transfer.

Scientists at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Switzerland sent the equivalent of a full-length DVD movie in about seven seconds.

Colleagues at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received the data.

The land record was set on Oct. 1 by transferring 1.1 terabytes of data over a 7,000-kilometre link in less than 30 minutes, the team said.

The average transfer rate was 5.44 gigabits per second (Gbps), which broke the previous record of 2.38 Gbps – more than 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection.

Researchers announced the record on Thursday at the Internet2 conference in Indianapolis.

Scientists want to transfer data more quickly for several experiments, such as simulations of the Big Bang.

"This new record marks another major milestone towards our final goal of abolishing distances and, in so doing, to enable more efficient worldwide scientific collaboration," said Oliver Martin in a release.

Martin is head of external networking at CERN.

To accomplish the feat, the team paid for a special transatlantic fibre optic link with a capacity of 10 Gbps.

Routers at both ends allowed the data to be sent more reliably.

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HOLY SHIT!!!

- Edited By 40ozFreak On Sat 18th, Oct 2003 @ 6:05:06pm

i just simulated the big bang.. My head just exploded. Thats CRAZY!!! oh man.... what the hell else can you say!??!?!

*me wants

dude... that speed is just... overkill... but i still want it!!

WHoa, thats fast

Imagine having a connection at that speed

1terebyte of data, thats madness! I cant even imagine what you could make 1terebyte out of.

ViperX wrote: WHoa, thats fast

Imagine having a connection at that speed

Well the average site can only send one person data at about 80kbs max - so it'd be useless to you and I...

- Edited By azz0r On Sun 19th, Oct 2003 @ 12:22:22am

Um... yeah, actually, thats a thought.

What could they have posibly sent accross that took up 1 terrabyte of space?

Null files Im guessing, just 10101010110's.

maybe it was just a bunch of data that amassed to over a TB of info :/

The article made it sound like they sent a DVD. Imagine how many movies you could send

this shit is mainly used for government usage

Whoa, thats REALLY fast! But I guess you all knwe that.

jesus, shweet

Can you imagine how much space a digitized human would be? We'd need podabytes per second transfers to be able to teleport efficiently. That would be awesome.

well that came out of left field.

this would be great for the human genome sequence... Transferring that data to a central location. They're already Grid computing the damn thing. the bandwidth would really help with that too. That bandwidth would also help SETI.

hmmm... i think some poeple might be about 2 meg if their lucky tho..

40ozFreak wrote: Can you imagine how much space a digitized human would be? We'd need podabytes per second transfers to be able to teleport efficiently. That would be awesome.

What are you talking about teleporting people?

thats what i was wondering... how exactly would that work?

oh damn... 10 more posts

teleporting people ahe.. i think thats a bit in the future, i rather not be ripped together and placed back again

for some reason i think im missing the point and 40oz meant something else

ya, id say it went pretty well over your head there..

well i know what the beginning topic is about

i wasnt sure what 40oz comment later on was about

If you had an internet connection like that.. you just download the internet.

That's what I'd do.. oh wait.. hard drive space.. ah crap.

They must of had rad computers to store that much data.

jesus thats fast, hope we all get that speed later

as the speed comes along the room for the large files will come along

40oz was refering to how big a humans intelligence would take up in GB, TB etc...

I dont think it'd be more than 4 terabytes.

uh i think that human intelligence should be far bigger than 4 terabytes... all these neuron connections etc

and can we even convert are brain to data