Internet2 may also have DRM or another copyright identification mechanism built in:
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6819.cfm http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/09/riaa_mpaa_internet2/ http://tinyurl.com/2qqpk9 -- Enric -======- http://cirne.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "bordercollieaustralianshepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Blazing! > <http://multicast.internet2.edu/> > > <http://events.internet2.edu/2007/spring-mm/sessionDetails.cfm?session=3191&event=267> > > By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer Tue Apr 24, 6:33 PM ET > <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070424/ap_on_hi_te/faster_internet_4> > 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 Tuesday that the researchers on > Dec. 30 sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard > communications protocols. > ADVERTISEMENT > > 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. > > That likely represents the current network's final record because > rules require a 10 percent 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 U.S. 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. >
