Internet speed record by transferring data at 186 Gbps between two cities

[Grapesoda]

Now, we all have reason to complain about the speed of our Internet connection. Scientists announced yesterday that they have broken the Internet speed record by transferring data at 186 Gbps between two cities.

The scientists at Caltech collaborated with those at the University of Victoria, the University of Michigan, the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) and Florida International University to build an optical network between University of Victoria Computing Centre located in Victoria, British Columbia, and the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. The network achieved a speed that could transfer 100,000 full Blu-ray discs in a day. The network was able to transfer 98 Gbps in one direction and 88 Gbps in the other. The previous record, said Caltech, was set in 2009 with a speed of 119 Gbps.

Naturally, you're asking yourself, what's the use of broadband this wide?

In a press release Caltech explains:


The fast transfer rate is also crucial for dealing with the tremendous amounts of data coming from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the particle accelerator that physicists hope will help them discover new particles and better understand the nature of matter, and space and time, solving some of the biggest mysteries of the universe. More than 100 petabytes (more than four million Blu-ray disks) of data have been processed, distributed, and analyzed using a global grid of 300 computing and storage facilities located at laboratories and universities around the world, and the data volume is expected to rise a thousand-fold as physicists crank up the collision rates and energies at the LHC.

"Enabling scientists anywhere in the world to work on the LHC data is a key objective, bringing the best minds together to work on the mysteries of the universe," says David Foster, the deputy IT department head at CERN.

"The 100-Gbps demonstration at SC11 is pushing the limits of network technology by showing that it is possible to transfer petascale particle physics data in a matter of hours to anywhere around the world," adds Randall Sobie, a research scientist at the Institute of Particle Physics in Canada and team member.

For a little perspective, the BBC reports that current fiber optic networks have a top speed of 1 Gbps. Verizon's FIOS, which boasts a blazing network, delivers a top speed of 150 Mbps.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...t-speed-record

[Nicky]

Cool.

I can get 1 gb/s here at home now but It's not worth the extra $80 per month since I have 100 now.

[sheken]

so basically someone was receiving data at 98gbps. That's 12.25GB/sec write speed on the receiving end. I can't think of any SAN's that can support such a high throughput.

[Operator]

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[bronco67]

If you think pirating is bad now, you just wait. Problem with these speeds is that hard drives will never be big enough to hold all of the data that freetards will download.

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by bronco67

If you think pirating is bad now, you just wait. Problem with these speeds is that hard drives will never be big enough to hold all of the data that freetards will download.

[BIGTYMER]

Originally Posted by Nicky

Cool.

I can get 1 gb/s here at home now but It's not worth the extra $80 per month since I have 100 now.

That's awesome to even have the option. I'm lucky to get 50mbps here.

[pornguy]

Hard drives will even have a hard time keeping up.

[raymor]

I've done 20 Gbps from my city to Houston. Transferring 12 TB took a little over an hour.

The transport medium wasn't fiber optic. Anybody have a guess what it was?

[over38]

You drove really fast down US 290 ?

[Supz]

Originally Posted by sheken

so basically someone was receiving data at 98gbps. That's 12.25GB/sec write speed on the receiving end. I can't think of any SAN's that can support such a high throughput.

technically this is not the case.

It is Gbps

So for hosting, lets say you get 100Mbps , this is 100,000Mbps

Since 1 Gbps is 1000 Mbps and this is 100 Gbps

But yes. this is some advanced technology shit. I sell pretty high end SAN's and they typically transfer data at 10Gpbs for the highest rate, some in the public market can do 40Gbps with multi-10Gbps ports. A lot of companies like NetApp and Cisco have 100Gbps in the pipeline. So this means the technology already exists in R & D.

[adultmobile]

As a result, price of traffic, and so of hosting tubes, it may become cheaper.

[AdultEUhost]

Originally Posted by bm bradley

For a little perspective, the BBC reports that current fiber optic networks have a top speed of 1 Gbps.

that dude needs some education or fact checking