Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767]

2003-03-07 Thread John Neiberger
Here's a quote from something I just saw in the news: Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center used fiber-optic cables to transfer 6.7 gigabytes of data -- the equivalent of two DVD movies -- across 6,800 miles in less than a minute. Pushing the tech envelope The team was able to

Re: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767]

2003-03-07 Thread John Hutchison
Big deal because it's 6800 miles for a full minute. An OC-48 can't push data that fast that far or that long. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=64769t=64767 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info:

RE: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767]

2003-03-07 Thread s vermill
John Neiberger wrote: Here's a quote from something I just saw in the news: Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center used fiber-optic cables to transfer 6.7 gigabytes of data -- the equivalent of two DVD movies -- across 6,800 miles in less than a minute. Pushing the tech

Re: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767]

2003-03-07 Thread s vermill
John Hutchison wrote: Big deal because it's 6800 miles for a full minute. An OC-48 can't push data that fast that far or that long. Yes it can. SONET is 60x60x24x7x52 at whatever rate the optics are running at. Distance is not an issue. Upper-layer protocols (such as TCP) that might

RE: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767]

2003-03-07 Thread Symon Thurlow
: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767] John Hutchison wrote: Big deal because it's 6800 miles for a full minute. An OC-48 can't push data that fast that far or that long. Yes it can. SONET is 60x60x24x7x52 at whatever rate the optics are running at. Distance is not an issue

Re: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767]

2003-03-07 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 8:56 PM + 3/7/03, John Neiberger wrote: Here's a quote from something I just saw in the news: Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center used fiber-optic cables to transfer 6.7 gigabytes of data -- the equivalent of two DVD movies -- across 6,800 miles in less than a minute.

Re: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767]

2003-03-07 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
Big deal because it's 6800 miles for a full minute. An OC-48 can't push data that fast that far or that long. I don't understand...there are OC-192s (WDM, multiples on a fiber) in operational use on quite a number of undersea cables. Message Posted at:

RE: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767]

2003-03-07 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
s vermill wrote: John Neiberger wrote: What you're missing is the cluelessness of news reporters and the public maybe... Here's a quote from something I just saw in the news: Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center used fiber-optic cables to transfer 6.7 gigabytes

RE: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767]

2003-03-07 Thread Andrew Dorsett
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: I suspect that they ignored the control issues. :-) If they used FTP/TCP/IP, they probably started measuring after the control and data 3-way handshakes and set the TCP window as huge as possible?? They probably rolled their own transfer

RE: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767]

2003-03-07 Thread Justin Kinney
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767] s vermill wrote: John Neiberger wrote: What you're missing is the cluelessness of news reporters and the public maybe... Here's a quote from something

RE: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767]

2003-03-07 Thread Mossburg, Geoff (MAN-Corporate)
John, Would you mind posting a link to the article? I'm curious. Thanks! Geoff Mossburg -Original Message- From: John Neiberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767] Here's

Re: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767]

2003-03-07 Thread John Neiberger
Message- From: John Neiberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767] Here's a quote from something I just saw in the news: Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center used fiber

RE: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767]

2003-03-07 Thread Mossburg, Geoff (MAN-Corporate)
in the group to interpret the rules... :-) Geoff Mossburg -Original Message- From: Justin Kinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 8:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767] Actually, the application they used was straight

RE: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767]

2003-03-07 Thread Justin Kinney
Record: What am I missing? [7:64767] John, Would you mind posting a link to the article? I'm curious. Thanks! Geoff Mossburg -Original Message- From: John Neiberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Intenet Speed Record

RE: Intenet Speed Record: What am I missing? [7:64767]

2003-03-07 Thread Andrew Dorsett
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Mossburg, Geoff (MAN-Corporate) wrote: I went to Justin's link and followed a few more and found this: http://lsr.internet2.edu/ That link not only has the original text that the news article quoted, but it explains that this is a contest and gives the rules for the