100 GB/s Internet 2 Completed

[JacKz5o]

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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[PVTCaboose1337]

Mmmm... good thing it runs through my city... Now is this the FASTEST in the world?

 

[ex_reven]

Holy shit.
Thats just awesome.

University lanparty here we come!
Now we need that network for home users

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

Wait a minute... is it... faster than the speed of light!?!?!?!

 

[JacKz5o]

Now if only hard drives can write at 100GB/s.. hmm

 

[Ravenas]

Really isn't that practical for the general public, most any download site caps your download rate.

 

[jocksteeluk]

with BT holding all the cards in the UK id say we should catch up in 10 or so years.

 

[JacKz5o]

Really isn't that practical for the general public, most any download site caps your download rate.

BitTorrent

 

[wazzledoozle]

Magnetic hard drives are still the limiting factor in file transfers.

Cant wait for holographic storage...

 

[Kreij]

Wait a minute... is it... faster than the speed of light!?!?!?!

Not quite there yet. According to Einstein's theory of relativity, breaking the speed of light would mean that the receiving end would get the data before the sender sent it.

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.

 

[hat]

Well... it might take some load off the main internets, giving us normal people slightly speedier connections, with lower latencies.

 

[Kreij]

High end new-fangled internet connection speeds are great, but I am not going to be impressed until they can get me at least 1Mb/s connection on my dial-up line.

 

[ex_reven]

Really isn't that practical for the general public, most any download site caps your download rate.

I was thinking more like an awesome LAN.
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

 

[kwchang007]

High end new-fangled internet connection speeds are great, but I am not going to be impressed until they can get me at least 1Mb/s connection on my dial-up line.

lol problem with dial-up is your so limited in bandwidth....pointless to try and improve it.

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.

 

[ex_reven]

lol problem with dial-up is your so limited in bandwidth....pointless to try and improve it.

As far as Internet 2 goes, it'll be a long time before we see this, first we need fiber optics to the door.

Arnt fibre optics a bad choice? Ive heard that the maintainance on them sucks because they're very fragile and they tend to rot after a few years.

 

[Kreij]

lol problem with dial-up is your so limited in bandwidth....pointless to try and improve it.

I know, I am just stuck with 56k where I live at the moment. It's by choice, however, as I live in the middle of an oak forest on a river in the middle of WI. Very nice

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.

The "new" speeds are very overkill for end users, but for mid-stream routing it is great.

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 ~300m x 10^8 m/sec. So if it the packet was traveling at 301 x10^8 m/sec and the distance was greater than 301 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.

The FTL time paradox is always been a staple of sci-fi writers and such, but that last comment you made is a total buzzkill for the hackers

In any event, the newest transfer speeds are always interesting news.

 

[JacKz5o]

Even if downloads are capped and with HD limitations and stuff, I would love to have a consistent 5 ping in CS:S

Low-latency LAN gaming over internet FTW

 

[kwchang007]

Arnt fibre optics a bad choice? Ive heard that the maintainance on them sucks because they're very fragile and they tend to rot after a few years.

It's possible, idk. But I'd guess that's why they lay them out in straight lines and seal them up. Copper can rot to you know. But in all truth, remember the nation is already based on fiberoptic backbones for the internet and telecommunications and such. So I think it's mature enough that the only problem is the cost of installing it.

 

[kwchang007]

The "new" speeds are very overkill for end users, but for mid-stream routing it is great.

True, true, but then again we are talking about the impractical here (think fiber optics to all houses, how expensive would that be?). Wonder what the current internet's backbones can carry...hmm Internet 2 defiantly is faster than even the fastest backbones...I believe.

 

[Kreij]

Actually not impratical.
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.

 

[kwchang007]

Actually not impratical.
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.

Yeah, I could have fios, but it's too expensive (we don't even have cable...go figure). And I think it costs Verizon like $500 a house or something.

I hope we'll see major upgrades, that way we can all start streaming hd porn shows.

 

[DaMulta]

Mmmm... good thing it runs through my city... Now is this the FASTEST in the world?

Runs through mine as well

 

[Kreij]

Here's my take on the whole thing ...

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.

 

[magibeg]

You don't sound like a techie at all... we need the internets for a healthy dose of monitor radiation

 

[ex_reven]

Here's my take on the whole thing ...

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.

The internet will not 'overload' and 'collapse'.
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.