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  From: Andrew Pullin <andrew@hotspurbgc.com.au>
  To  : <mselge@hansenyuncken.com.au>
  Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 04:49:24 +1000

Re: [OT] This is faaast - Internet 2

Hi All,
    Yep sure is fast for a dedicated network for testing new
technologies with only a few servers and users! Now add
another 20 million servers, about 800 million users, a few
worms and viruses, M$ outlook express, irc, Usenet, ftp data
warehouses, HTML mail and Spam and lets see how quick it is.
    Cheers!
        A.

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Selge <mselge@hansenyuncken.com.au>
To: Linuxsa (E-mail) <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:06 PM
Subject: [OT] This is faaast - Internet 2


> LOL...if you were on a 3 gig per month plan you would use
your months
> allowance in 1 minute.
>
>
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/23/1022038451171.html
>
> Internet2 speed record
> May 23 2002
>
> An international team has set a new record for Internet
performance by
> transferring the equivalent of an entire CD's contents
across more than
> 12,272km of network in 13 seconds.
>
> The rate of 401 megabits per second achieved in
transferring 625 megabytes
> of data from Fairbanks, Alaska to Amsterdam in the
Netherlands is over 8000
> times greater than the fastest dial-up modem.
>
> The team consisted of the University of Alaska at
Fairbanks, the Faculty of
> Science of the University of Amsterdam, and SURFnet, the
national computer
> network for higher education and research in the
Netherlands. At both ends,
> standard PC-like hardware running Debian GNU/Linux was
used.
>
> With an Internet connection of this size transferring all
six CDs of Woody,
> the soon-to-be released version 3.0 of Debian, from
Fairbanks to Amsterdam
> would only require 78 seconds. Faster CD burners are
needed, it would seem.
>
> "This shows that geography is no barrier to advanced
network applications,"
> said Kerry Digou, the systems programmer who headed the
University of Alaska
> team. "Using standard equipment and infrastructure
developed in the
> Internet2 community, we've pushed the boundaries to the
edges."
>
>
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