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Internet speed record broken
25/04/2007 14:38 - (SA)

New York - 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 on Tuesday that the researchers on December 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% 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.

The Matrix in seconds

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 US 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 on Wednesday in Arlington, Virginia.
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Ha! Telkom will snub at this just like they did with ADSL and go on marketing ISDN, ATM and DigiNet "cutting edge"
 
Imagine telkom gives you a link like that.... Then cap it at 3gb... :sick:
 
yeah, telkom will offer those speeds in the year 4000 but only be able to install in the year 5000.
 
Well, theoretically, telkom hold the stakes with internet, not internet2, it could be argued that they are completely different, and therefore, someone other than Telkom could provide the service
 
ShaunSA said:
hey maybe telkom will be offering this in the year 4000!
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Telkom's method would entail loading a truck full of hdd's and driving them to the destination - calculating the total capacity and the time to destination. :rolleyes:
 
Alchemist said:
Well, theoretically, telkom hold the stakes with internet, not internet2, it could be argued that they are completely different, and therefore, someone other than Telkom could provide the service
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The DOC would argue that its related to Telecommunications and make it a requirement to purchase large quantities of KY to use Internet2
 
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