HAHAHA! Apart from breaking internet speed records, researchers also seem to have broken time records, or invented a time machine, in order to have already sent data at such high speeds on December 30 2007!!!!!!!!!!!
What an example of typographical futuristic fallacy!! Rajesh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vikas Kapoor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Access India" <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:50 AM Subject: [AI] Researchers break Net speed records > Researchers break Net speed records > Apr 26, 2007 > > NEW YORK: A group of researchers led by the University of Tokyo has > broken Internet speed records - twice in two days. Operators of the > high-speed Internet2 > network announced that the researchers on December 30, 2007 sent data at > 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols. > > The next day, using modified protocols, the team broke the record again > by sending data over the same 20,000-mile path at 9.08 Gbps. > > This likely represents the current network's final record since rules > require a 10 per cent improvement for recognition, a percentage that would > bring > the next record right at the Internet2's current theoretical limit of 10 > Gbps. > > However, the Internet2 consortium is planning to build a new network > with a capacity of 100 Gbps. With the 10-fold increase, a high-quality > version of > the movie "The Matrix" could be sent in a few seconds rather than half a > minute over the current Internet2 and two days over a typical home > broadband line. > > > Researchers used the newer Internet addressing system, called IPv6, to > break the records in December. Data started in Tokyo and went to Chicago, > Amsterdam > and Seattle before returning to Tokyo. The previous high of 6.96 Gbps was > set in November 2005. > > Speed records under the older addressing system, IPv4, are in a separate > category and stand at 8.8 Gbps, set in February 2006. > > The Internet2 is run by a consortium of more than 200 US University. It > is currently working to merge with another ultrahigh-speed, > next-generation network, > National LambdaRail. > > The announcement of the new record was made at the Internet2 > consortium's spring meeting, which ends Wednesday in Arlington, Va. > > http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Researchers_break_Net_speed_records/RssArticleShow/articleshow/1954840.cms > > Vikas Kapoor, > MSN ID: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo ID: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype ID: dl_vikas > Mobile: (+91) 9891098137. > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
