Internet speed record quadrupled to 101 Gbit/s

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An international team of physicists, scientists and engineers achieved a new speed record for long distance data transfer: During the Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge the sustained data transfer was 101 Gbit per second (Gbp/s) between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles. This is more than four times faster than last year's record of 23 Gbp/s.

The group's "High-Speed TeraByte Transfers for Physics" record data transfer speed is equivalent to downloading three full DVD movies per second, or transmitting all of the content of the Library of Congress in 15 minutes, and it corresponds to approximately percent of the rate that all forms of digital content were produced on Earth during the test, the team led by the California Institute of Technology said.

The extraordinary achieved bandwidth was made possible in part through the use of the Fast TCP protocol developed by Professor Steven Low and his Caltech Netlab team. It was achieved through the use of seven 10 Gbp/s links to Cisco 7600 and 6500 series switch-routers provided by Cisco Systems at the Caltech Center for Advanced Computing booth, and three 10 Gbp/s links to the SLAC/Fermilab booth near Chicago.

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[megiddo]

101 gb/s, thats fast. really, really fast. is that faster than fibre optic?

[samurailos]

Extremely fats, I'd like to be downloading at that speed, think of the possibilities, hahah

[wiz]

You would run out of storage space very quickly. 101 Gbits p/sec thats almost 22 DVD's in a second.....
You could download the whole internet...

[megiddo]

hehe, u would need terabyte hd, probably one per day

[ramesh]

Hey I found the link to download the internet!

[Arch_Angel]

It doesn't work ramesh.

[Spaz]

funny thing is I was chatting with some sweeds and one mentioned that a company there is offering 1GB internet connection to residential customers, for arround $125US.
bastereds there standard connection to the internet is 10MB.
but back on topic those cisco routers are real nice, but a 3 dvds a second the MPAA wont like that at all. I can only imagine what those research assistants do when the boss isnt arround.

[rhys]

Extremely fats, I'd like to be downloading at that speed, think of the possibilities, hahah

yes the possibilities seem endless, at that speed, I'm looking to download hardware.

[icuucme]

yes the possibilities seem endless, at that speed, I'm looking to download hardware.

lol...very funny