Scientists set new internet speed record
A team of researchers led by the University of Tokyo have managed to send files over Internet2 at super-fast speeds. During the annual Internet2 Spring meeting this week managed to send to send data along a 30,000 kilometer path at a rate of 9.08Gbps, which equals 272,400 Terabit-meters per second.
Just in case you were wondering why you've never seen your video downloads enter the TB-m/S range, Internet2 is a non-profit consortium made up of a few hundred universities, corporations, and government agencies. The goal is to design a faster version of the internet capable of handing extremely high bandwidth.
One can only hope that this technology will eventually be used for good and not evil -- and that we'll be able to download HD movies in a matter of seconds, rather than minutes or hours.
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