.......sent 8.4 GB of data in 81 secs.

[Bleeding Edge]

Using standard Windows 2000 TCP/IP, the team composed of Microsoft/ISI/Quest/UW, in a contest sponsored by Internet2, sent 8.4 GB of data in 81 seconds at a synchronous rate of 957 Mbps on two TCP/IP streams using dual PIII 733MHz machines running Windows 2000 with SysKonnect Gigabit Ethernet cards. The data was transferred from Redmond, Washington to ISI-East in Arlington Virginia thru DARPA’s SuperNet.

That’s a distance of 5,626 km.

According to a MS press release, at that speed, you can download a full Audio-CD in 6 seconds.

It would take 13 hours on a 1.5 DSL line...

“The limits on today’s bandwidth are no longer determined by raw bandwidth, but by how well the different network components work together.” –Senior V.P. Windows Division


-B.E.

[Inferior]

My god, thats amazing....

[smokin1]

I'm confused I guess...8.4GB in 81 sec doesn't sound like much of a feat...is it supposed to be TB?..now that would rock..
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[Inferior]

At 5625 km I think that is impressive....

If you don't, can you tell me what your connection can do please?

[Warthog]

"According to my calculations" that makes it 103mb a second?

Warthog

[smokin1]

Do you have a link to the article?...

[This message has been edited by smokin1 (edited 06-03-2000).]

[Bleeding Edge]

I read it in the paper and briefly saw something about it somewhere. *lol*


You can get some info at Microsoft's press site and Internet2.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2000/Mar00/PerformancePR.asp
http://www.internet2.edu/html/i2lsr.html

[This message has been edited by Bleeding Edge (edited 06-03-2000).]

[jadison]

I read about this over a year and a half ago..."Internet2" is set up by many universities and a few organizations around the world to create a second, faster, new-technology, less congested internet. This is much how the 1st Internet started, but this one is using newer technology and its speeds will be ever increasingly fast!

One of the perks is that astronomers in Hawaii are actually able to work in real-time with astronomers from other parts of the world and hold a "Virtual Conference" at which members could share documents and video feeds of large size instantaneosly! They can compare data quicker and get results even faster!

It seems exciting to here the new speeds were capable of...personally though I can't wait till the Virtual Internet becomes commonplace, I have a small demo version that only includes a few hundred sites and the environment is unique.
If anyone would like to check out a cool 3D web browser--> http://www.activeworlds.com

-=jd=-

[wtp]

yeah, i saw this news in microsoft.

[ytay]

i remember reading that a canadian team are working with advanced fibre optics and they could d\l the entire library of congrees in less than one second from vancouver to halifax.....scary stuff

[BBA]

957 MB/s?

Thats one heck of a drive array!

I guess if you software raid-0 a few hardware raid-0 drive arrays, you might be able to get that much data throughput...but you'd be pushing it...I want those hard drives!

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[rtyp3]

Jadison- I thought that the inernet2 was built for these universities and things because the inernet(1) is getting so congested and slowing things down, and that it (i2) would not be for public use. So, were screwed. Atleast I think that is correct info, unless they changed their minds in the last 6 months or so...

EDIT- Hey sweet, I went and looked into it, and it seems that it will be for public use in the future... that will be smooth.

[This message has been edited by rtyp3 (edited 06-04-2000).]

[Warthog]

oops didn't read it all. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog

[smokin1]

OK, I understand what 957 Mbps is...can someone explain something though?...my cable connection has a throughput of say 1000Kbytes/sec (just checked ), and downloading 8.4 MB in 81 sec is almost well, average...at 957 Mbps, would they not have done over 9,000 MB? 957 Mb = 119,625,000 bytes = 114 MB x 81 = 9240 ?
as I said before...confused..
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[Polaris]

Smokin...... Look closely to what was said http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

8.4 GB! GIGS not MEGS http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif Thats the amount that the average HD size in many computers now days!

Thats what I call screamin!

[smokin1]

See? I told you I was confused..LOL...
Doh!...of all the things I've lost in life, I think I miss my mind the most...
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[Warthog]

LOL Smokin. I know how you feel. I was a bit confused also. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Warthog

[x35Agent]

Those kind of speeds will never happen in my neck of the woods at least not in my life time. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif