NewsFactor reports that Sprint and SUNET, a Swedish research group, have broken the Internet speed record, sending data 10,000 miles at 4.23 Gigabits per second -- nearly three times faster than the previous highest speed. Significantly, they made the accomplishment using commercial networks and readily available hardware. The feat offers a glimpse of the future for enterprises migrating toward Web-based networking.
The Sprint/SUNET team in April sent nearly 840 gigabytes of data from a PC in San Jose, California to associates at another computer at the University of Lulea in northern Sweden in under 27 minutes. The data traveled some 10,000 miles, or nearly halfway around the globe, using the SprintLink Internet backbone and the GigaSUNET IP system at 4.23 Gigabits per second (Gbps).
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