EU/US Break Internet Speed Record
Posted: 17th Oct, 2003 By: MarkJ
The European organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, has used its new GRID network to double the previous Internet speed record. The Geneva lab managed to send 1.1 Terabytes of data @ 5.44 Gigabits per second to a lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech):
This is more than 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection, and is also equivalent to transferring a 60-minute compact disc within one second - an operation that takes around eight minutes on standard broadband.
Using current technology, a DVD - or digital video disc - film of some 90 minutes length takes some 15 minutes to download from the Internet.
Olivier Martin of CERN, which is also the European Laboratory for Particle Physics and home to a hugely ambitious particle-smashing project to unravel the fundamental laws of nature, hailed the feat as a milestone.
Sadly we'll all have to wait a little longer before home 5.5Gbps connections are available to the public =). More @ eTaiwanNews.
This is more than 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection, and is also equivalent to transferring a 60-minute compact disc within one second - an operation that takes around eight minutes on standard broadband.
Using current technology, a DVD - or digital video disc - film of some 90 minutes length takes some 15 minutes to download from the Internet.
Olivier Martin of CERN, which is also the European Laboratory for Particle Physics and home to a hugely ambitious particle-smashing project to unravel the fundamental laws of nature, hailed the feat as a milestone.
Sadly we'll all have to wait a little longer before home 5.5Gbps connections are available to the public =). More @ eTaiwanNews.
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