New FAST technology

[pnaidoo]

Scientists have developed a new data transfer protocol for the Internet fast enough to download a full-length DVD movie in less than five seconds, the California Institute of Technology said today.

The researchers achieved a speed of 8,609 megabits per second (Mbps) by using 10 simultaneous flows of data over routed paths, the largest aggregate throughput ever accomplished in such a configuration, Caltech said in a news release. "That is 153,000 times that of today's modem and close to 6,000 times that of the common standard for ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) connections."

Have a look at this article!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0318_030318_internet.html

 

[Pierre]

An interresting thought..........

How do they expect people like me to believe this? I mean, if you copy a dvd from one hdd to another on different IDE's, it takes 15 to 20 minutes. If you COPY a dvd from one place to another place on the same hdd, it takes roughly the same time.

How could it be possible through a network then, to copy a dvd over the 'net in such a short time?

I mean, it should first be read from somewhere (the grid they are talking about), and then written onto something (one hdd that can't even manage to copy a dvd onto itself in less than 15 minutes).

It just doesn't cut the sense for me here.........

 

[Random717]

if you have a cluster of servers running raid hard drives on a fibre connection you should be able to get some ridiculous speeds. Even on a single machine you can have 5 groups of five drives running raid with several bridged gigabit network cards.. ok i'm drooling here

 

[Nokkie]

An interresting thought..........

How do they expect people like me to believe this? I mean, if you copy a dvd from one hdd to another on different IDE's, it takes 15 to 20 minutes. If you COPY a dvd from one place to another place on the same hdd, it takes roughly the same time.

How could it be possible through a network then, to copy a dvd over the 'net in such a short time?

I mean, it should first be read from somewhere (the grid they are talking about), and then written onto something (one hdd that can't even manage to copy a dvd onto itself in less than 15 minutes).

It just doesn't cut the sense for me here.........

"by using 10 simultaneous flows of data over routed paths, the largest aggregate throughput ever accomplished in such a configuration"

that answers your question?

 

[Pierre]

Point noted, and yes I did get that part, but hear my song.

Now I'll have to explain to the laaitie across the street all over again that this was not a connection over the 'net, cause he'll be reading it, and completely misunderstand it, and then he will come and complain to me about how **** it is in SA, and frankly speaking here, but you lot here at myadsl do it a lot, and then I'll have a live one!!!

How can these people continue doing these things to me.....!!!!??????

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Just tell them it's Telkom wanting to make mo' money...

 

[Tarzan]

There goes your cap in 3.2 seconds...