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Ireland joins Internet2

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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    7 lines!! WOW Imagine that running into your personal hub at home!!!!:) Surely more people now will realise what the internet can do and how fast it can go. It's a good sign, 'cos the Colleges are always first with the new technology crap. Correct me is I'm wrong anyone, but UCD afaik had internet access years before the commercial internet emerged, which is normally the same in other areas of Science too. So maybe we'll all have direct access to a 100-line fibre backbone in the future. No? Ah well I can always dream...:(


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    The Cigarette Smoking Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 649 ✭✭✭The Cigarette Smoking Man


    That's 7 STM-1 lines - over 1Gbps. I wonder where those lines will be terminated though?

    I also read last week that the new INEX facility in Data Electronics is to be lit up on the 22nd. This should be good news for Irish users as they were talking about upgrading to gigabit ethernet when they moved.

    And now for my gripe of the day... :) Eircom co-lo hosting: £400pm plus bandwidth charges. There's two types of bandwidth charges - usage based or fixed. The minimum price for usage based is £24,000 pa. That's £28,800 for one server in eircom.... how the hell can anyone afford that.

    The usage charge above is equivalent to 331GB pm. A Cobalt RaQ from www.rackshack.net costs $99 pm and gives you 300GB....


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    Delphi91
    Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Delphi91


    Originally posted by seamus
    ...Correct me is I'm wrong anyone, but UCD afaik had internet access years before the commercial internet emerged...(

    HEAnet has been in existence since 1983. Have a look at http://www.heanet.ie/Heanet/history.html to get more info.

    Mike


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    rymus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    The seven 155 megabit STM-1 lines

    /me drools himself to death

    7 fibre connections... thats unthinkable. Thats... just *head explodes*


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    Baz_
    Registered Users Posts: 2,660 ✭✭✭Baz_


    lol @ rymus

    I know how you feel, but you've just got to calm down, or change colleges...


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    b20uvkft6m5xwg
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    Better make use of that capacity while I'm still in college then.
    Only after mopping the drool from around my jaw before leaving the house though:)


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    The Cigarette Smoking Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 649 ✭✭✭The Cigarette Smoking Man


    I know how you feel, but you've just got to calm down, or change colleges...

    The biggest link into any college at the moment is 55Mb (ITNet), so your only going to get full advantage of it if you head into the HEA NOC. UCD and DCU have 20Mb connections, TCD has 30Mb and DIT has 34Mb.


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