Will Ireland go for it ?

molinaalexis · 21-01-2003 8:34pm #1

An international team set new Internet2 Land Speed Records by transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data across 10,978 kilometers (more than 6,800 miles) of network in less than one minute. Using a quantity of data equivalent to nearly two feature-length DVD-quality movies, the transfer was accomplished at an average speed of more than 923 megabits per second, or more than 3500 times faster than a typical home broadband connection, during the SC2002 conference held 16-22 November 2002

The Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) competition for the highest-bandwidth, end-to-end networks is an open and ongoing contest.

http://lsr.internet2.edu/history.html

Mountjoy Mugger · 21-01-2003 8:37pm

This might be more relevant to Net/Comms.

sceptre · 21-01-2003 11:55pm

Moving

milltown · 22-01-2003 12:45am

Why am I picturing Eddie "the eagle" Edwards with a tricolour draped over his shoulders?:rolleyes:

The Cigarette Smoking Man · 22-01-2003 1:07am

Ireland already has a connection to Internet2 -> http://www.hea.net/

Edit: Just had a look at some of the graphs on their site and Trinity College now has a 1Gb connection into HEA.

Turner · 22-01-2003 1:41am

Does trinity actually use all that bandwidth or is it just for fun.

The Cigarette Smoking Man · 22-01-2003 2:40pm

They don't use it at the moment anyway. They have to pay Heanet for the bandwidth they use, so I doubt they're paying for 1Gb at the moment. From the graphs it looks like they aren't going over ~80Mb/s at the moment, but they could be planning to use the bandwidth for other applications such as Internet2 etc.

http://mrtg.hea.net/mrtg/tcd-ge.html

The Hea have also got in a new STM-4 (622Mb/s) from Global Crossing for their general Internet connection.

Will Ireland go for it ?

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