OMG Download a DVD in 7 seconds!!

GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Two major scientific research centres said on Wednesday they had set a new world speed record for sending data across the Internet, equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD film in seven seconds.

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, CERN, said the feat, doubling the previous top speed, was achieved in a nearly 30-minute transmission over 7,000 kms of network between Geneva and a partner body in California.

CERN, whose laboratories straddle the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, said it had sent 1.1 Terabytes of data at 5.44 gigabits a second (Gbps) to a lab at the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, on October 1.

This is more than 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection, and is also equivalent to transferring a 60-minute compact disc within one second -- an operation that takes around eight minutes on standard broadband.

Using current technology, a DVD -- or digital video disc -- film of some 90 minutes length takes some 15 minutes to download from the Internet.

Olivier Martin of CERN, which is also the European Laboratory for Particle Physics and home to a hugely ambitious particle-smashing project to unravel the fundamental laws of nature, hailed the feat as a milestone.

It would bring closer researchers' final goal of abolishing distance and making collaboration between scientists around the world efficient and effectively instantaneous, he said.

Harvey Newman of Caltech, another of the world's major research centres, said the achievement boosted hopes that systems operating at 10 gigabits per second "will be commonplace in the relatively near future."

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/10/15/internet.speed.reut/index.html

woohoo Porn DLers cheer.

That rate exceeds the write rate of most, if not all, hard drives. I guess you could capture the blast with an array, or 1TB of RAM :-p. Still, you don't have to go that fast. Pretty amazing!

there is a schematic of how they can receive so much data on the CNN website

You suck

A clever use of html

but you suck

as for the REAL article... this is amazing.

If we ever realize teleportation from point to point this is the type of tech that will make it possible.

soon, everyhome with have a SAN with multiple multiGb fiber connections

Haha my computer couldn't save it fast enough.

Pretty amazing though, and it will become mainstream just like broad band has.

mainstream by the time i'm dead =/

CERN is illuminati.

i use 56k. maybe by the time this comes out they will have broadband here.

Word Yabden!