Cast Your VoteBy ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer Tue Apr 24, 6:33 PM ET
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.
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.
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Lets look:
First we have Ipod, actually a hard drive on our hip.
Second we have the cel phone with that one little 1" screen.
Third we have white spaces in local tv channels.
Fourth MS NEW OS has voice recognition.
now lets mix them together.
Ipod picks up a operating system, and increases size.
cell phone grows a second screen, and ear handles.
and the white space is picked up by internet broad band.
SO NOW WE HAVE A WEARABLE PC, VOICE ACTIVATED, CELL PHONE HAS MORPHED INTO GLASSES WITH TWO STEREO VIEW SCREENS. AND CONNECTED TO INTERNET VIA CHEAP TV SIGNALS, FOR COUNTRY WIDE SERVICE.
eventually WE WILL HAVE A CHIP INSERTED INTO OUR HAND THAT IS OUR LIFE TIME HARD DRIVE, WITH WIFI YOU NEED TO SIMPLY BRING YOUR HAND NEAR A TERMINAL AND INPUT PASSWORDS, OR FINGER PRINT TO ACCESS YOUR PERMANENT HARD DRIVE.
GERALD
Are a group of methods for pulling data from a closed or limited cell.
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