Comrade Borris
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Anyone heard of Internet2.
see http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/2004/0409070811.asp?S=Software&A=SFT&O=FRGN#4
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">In the experiment, researchers were able to send 859GB of data in under 17 minutes at a transfer rate of 6.63Gbps, dvhardware reports. Similar speeds would allow a user to download a full-length DVD movie in four seconds.
see http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/2004/0409070811.asp?S=Software&A=SFT&O=FRGN#4
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">In the experiment, researchers were able to send 859GB of data in under 17 minutes at a transfer rate of 6.63Gbps, dvhardware reports. Similar speeds would allow a user to download a full-length DVD movie in four seconds.
The experiment was carried out between the Geneva, Switzerland, home of CERN, and Pasadena, California, where Caltech is based – a distance of approximately 15 766km.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Rumour has it Sentech will soon be implementing this[]
yeah right.