Upload and Download a FULL DvD in 7 Seconds? One day, this will be in your home.

[MrVicchio]

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/10/17/net_speed031017

GENEVA - Researchers have more than doubled the world speed record for internet data transfer.

Scientists at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Switzerland sent the equivalent of a full-length DVD movie in about seven seconds.




Colleagues at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received the data.

The land record was set on Oct. 1 by transferring 1.1 terabytes of data over a 7,000-kilometre link in less than 30 minutes, the team said.

The average transfer rate was 5.44 gigabits per second (Gbps), which broke the previous record of 2.38 Gbps � more than 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection.

Researchers announced the record on Thursday at the Internet2 conference in Indianapolis.

Scientists want to transfer data more quickly for several experiments, such as simulations of the Big Bang.

"This new record marks another major milestone towards our final goal of abolishing distances and, in so doing, to enable more efficient worldwide scientific collaboration," said Oliver Martin in a release.

Martin is head of external networking at CERN.

To accomplish the feat, the team paid for a special transatlantic fibre optic link with a capacity of 10 Gbps.

Routers at both ends allowed the data to be sent more reliably.



Written by CBC News Online staff

[NightWalker XI]

Holy shit dude.....I want that...NOW!

*sends forum newbs to go fetch it*

[TekDragon]

i don't think that will be the 'norm' dl speed for a loooooooooooooooooooooooong time. Probly by the time i'm in my 70's.

I'll watch my grandkids playing on their PCs and be like "You whipper snappers. I remember back in the day I had to wait a whole 6 seconds for a pr0n pic to load"

[Derfud]

Once that is the norm, Online games with fully dynamic environments, and complex physics engines will be on the market.

[ZeusCali]

Kick ARse man! Super speed internet... I Can You imagine the possibilities...planetside WITH no lag!!

[MrVicchio]

Originally Posted by TekDragon

i don't think that will be the 'norm' dl speed for a loooooooooooooooooooooooong time. Probly by the time i'm in my 70's.

I'll watch my grandkids playing on their PCs and be like "You whipper snappers. I remember back in the day I had to wait a whole 6 seconds for a pr0n pic to load"

When I was 5, my Dad got the coolest toy, a digital Watch that was also a calculator. It was big and bulky. I asked my Dad about that watch not too long ago, "Why on EARTH did you buy that ugly thing?" his ansswer was that the computing power in that watch was more then exsisted when he was a kid in the whole world. Just facinated him. That was a leap that took 30 years. Supercomputer(of the time) to a Watch.

When I was 7, the fastest "internet" (might have been a few years later even) was a 5,600 BIT per second(thats .056KPS) watch WarGames, that is an example of one. 20 years later I have a 1MPS line... 5,600 to 1,000,000. in jsut 20 years. Think about that.

When I was a kid we had an Atari 2600. That was the 1337 system. Today its an X-Box... Atari 2600 to X-Box in just 20 years.

Scary part? Most of those advances have come in just the last 10. Imagine what 20 years from now is going to be like. You Grand kids will look at an X-Box liek we look at an Atari 2600 now.. I dread to think what they will say of that system.

[TekDragon]

I agree Vich. But the way i see it is limits.

First, we reached the limit of the amount of data that could be transferred over a phone line. Then, we started putting cable and other broadband wires into people's houses. Now, we're approaching the limit of what we can economically get into the average person's house via high speed lines.

The way I see it, the next wave will be wireless internet. People bringing their laptops with them wherever. You walk into a book store, open up your laptop, boom: your on the internet. No wires, no nothing.

Again, we reach the point of limits. With wireless (keeping in mind that it WILL be the next wave), what's the choke point, economically speaking?

[Flammey]

Well, all I can say is that I can't wait for RDSL. That's Realtime-Data-Service-Link. Think of being able to play PS in absolute realtime. No lag, no retarded death from being five feet from a moving vehicle. That sort of thing. Oh well, just a wish.

[Everay]

technicaly, thats OFN, but its bad ass ofn. the problem is, its Optical cable.....thats glass people, and glass breaks. but sooner or later, that guys Law....you know, the one that says technology will double every ten or so years, they say thats gonna break down here soon, unless they find some new way to make chips

[Prophaniti]

Must... kill... scientists... take... god-modem...

[Flammey]

Actually, I am pretty sure they already HAVE a new type of micro chip. Why is it not out? Money. They want to milk things as much as possible, so processor speeds will gradually increase, instead of going from 3 gigs, to say 5 gigs, they'll do a 3.5, 4, maybe a 4.3, 4.6 and then a 5.

[Everay]

and flammey, where if i may ask, have you acquired this info?

[MrVicchio]

Its not 10 years, its 18 months.

[Strygun]

wait, you mean that speed isn't the norm? I have that running into my house atm...weird, I thought everyone had it.

[1024]

strygun = die plz.

but its not true so no dying for you.