Physicists smash Internet speed record
 

Last Updated Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:17:53
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.

Re: Physicists smash Internet speed record
 

The thing they aren't telling you here, is that the Big Bang is a terabyte of porn. oOo:

heh, still that's fast, espically the distance! ed:

rolleyes: Pfff!

I got faster speeds in '95

Swiss N3rds.

They can send 1.1 TB over 7,000kms in less than 30 mins, but have they ever had sex? Probably not.

rolleyes: Pfff!

I was having sex in '9........shit, no I wasn't annoy:

superman is faster than that... oOo:

friggin sweet. Maybe i should try and contact those guys to host a server of mine. lol, that'll never work eek:

The stuff nerds dreams are made of. calmdown:

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rolleyes: Pfff!

I was having sex in '9........shit, no I wasn't annoy:[/quote:ed90e]

n00b! wink:

ed:

ALTHOUGH!

cuss: I was on this site before most of you n00bs

*goes for a double handed knuckle shuffle over eightace's beaver-shot*

mr.miyagi
has been here a while i know that for sure. at least a year and a half.

dial up is faster

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