Nearly 840 gigabytes of data traveled roughly 10 thousand miles i...
Nearly 840 gigabytes of data traveled roughly 10 thousand miles in under 20 minutes in April, according to Sprint and the Swedish National Research & Education Network (SUNET). The data traveled from San Jose, Cal., to the Un. of…
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Lulea in Sweden, across SprintLink and the GigaSUNET IP backbones at 4.23 gigabytes per sec., officials said. The transmission path included 40 IP routers (35 SprintLink networks and 5 SUNET) and the end hosts were Dell 2650 servers. The PCs were connected using Intel PRO/10GbE ten- gigabit Ethernet adapters, officials said. Sprint/SUNET said they beat the existing record (61,752 terabit meters/sec.) in the IPv4 single stream category of the Internet2 consortium’s “Internet Land Speed Record” competition by close to 12%, and almost tripled the record in the Guinness Book, officials said. “The record Sprint beat was done on a private network but Sprint ran the bulk data on a public network during high use. It’s the difference between driving to Dulles Airport at 3 a.m. with no one but you and a state trooper vs. the evening at rush hour” said a Sprint spokesman. The Internet2 consortium, based in Indianapolis, verified the accomplishment and will give Sprint/SUNET recognition in the fall, officials said.