Tuesday, October 9th 2007
100 GB/s Internet 2 Completed
The Internet 2 consortium has finally announced that its updated infrastructure is ready to go online and provide an initial capacity of 100 Gb/s to researchers and educators. The insanely fast network connection was put to test for the first time when the organization established a connection between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Fermilab in Batavia, IL and was able to transfer a third of a terabyte within five minutes over a 10 GB/s connection. Internet 2 consortium representatives said that the network will be continuing to provide an advanced IP Network that supports production networking technologies such as IPv6, multicast, and several other high-performance networking technologies.
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TG Daily
40 Comments on 100 GB/s Internet 2 Completed
Thats just awesome.
University lanparty here we come! :roll:
Now we need that network for home users :)
Cant wait for holographic storage...
When that actually happens, hackers are going to dance with glee as they will be able to distribute hacked warez before they are actually created.
DaMulta did some tests on the mars base with his advanced FTL equipment and I think he said he already has Vista SP2. :rockout:
Imagine that everyone in the world's hard drives turned up in your system as NAS and you could access them with the right passwords/security features in place :cool:
As far as Internet 2 goes, it'll be a long time before we see this, first we need fiber optics to the door. Second, as people have said, hdds are too slow to take advantage of this. Third, 10 GB per sec is nice, but for all practical purposes, right now 1 GB/sec is overkill. Oh and as far as faster than the speed of light, it wouldn't necessarily arrive at the destination before it was created.
The speed of light is ~3.00m x 10^8 m/sec. So if it the packet was traveling at 3.01 x10^8 m/sec and the distance was greater than 3.01 x 10^8 m, it would have to be created before it arrived, but it somewhere along the line it would have to be created before it was sent. Uhh I'm hoping this is right btw.
In any event, the newest transfer speeds are always interesting news.
Low-latency LAN gaming over internet FTW :D
Verizon is already working on fiber to the end-user in a limited demographic.
If end users can pull data at blinding speeds, and if there are enough of them, the mid-stream infrastructure will overload in a heartbeat unless it is capable of handling huge amounts of data throughput.
You will see major upgrades in the infrastructure in the US in the next couple of years.
I hope we'll see major upgrades, that way we can all start streaming hd
pornshows.The internet bandwidth requirements are going to grow exponetially in the next few years.
People will start demanding higher data throughput to feed their internet addictions.
When everyone cannot live without the internet, the whole thing will collapse due to some unforseen consequence.
Life as most people know if will become chaos.
I will be watering the crab apple tree I planted, and wondering if fishing is good that day.
So be it.
No one needs the internet to survive, it needs us to survive.
If that happened theyd just pull the plug on local areas causing issues until they had a solution. They could even just artifically limit bandwidth I suppose. The higher speed of the internet would in that case not cause the issue, rather the increased people using it.
I think I read something about Japan developing alternative network to Internet, anybody remember the speeds?
And about fiber optics. If one is to believe my university teacher, atleast according to him, today the most expensive part on fiber optic connections is the actual work done by man by digging the ditches to the earth. He might be right as some of the newer house holds in my part of europe allrdy come with fiber optic connections.