PITTSBURGH, Pa.

For the second consecutive year, the “High Energy Physics” team of physicists, computer scientists and network engineers led by the California Institute of Technology and their partners at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Fermilab, CERN and the University of Florida, as well as international participants from the UK (University of Manchester, UCL and UKLight), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro State University, UERJ, and the State Universities of São Paulo, USP and UNESP) and Korea (Kyungpook National University, KISTI) joined forces at the Supercomputing 2004 (SC04) Bandwidth Challenge to capture the Sustained Bandwidth Award. Their demonstration of “High Speed TeraByte Transfers for Physics” achieved a throughput of 101 gigabits per second (Gbps) to and from the show floor, which exceeds the previous year's mark of 23.2 Gbps, set by the same team, by a factor of more than four. The record data transfer speed is equivalent to downloading three full DVD movies per second, or transmitting all of the content of the Library of Congress in 15 minutes. It also has been estimated to be approximately 5% of the total rate of production of new content on Earth during the test.

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Nice! I didn't find in the article the medium used, though. Was this copper a-la-RJ45 or fiber-op?

One more thing: That would suggest that the LoC is 90.9 terabits (11.36TBy). Did I get that right?

Thankyou Thierry for the story

Network are one of *my* horses, have readen this article with interest

5% of worldwide bandwidth, cool!

@NeoAmsterdam
Not sure if still copperbased media is used, copper is limited, only possible with *huge* parallel lines/trunks

I believe, the transportmedia to the tranceiver/receiver parts are multi core fiber optic based, perhaps thick like a finger, not more!
This is normaly used for highspeed backbone conection "wire", 1000 MBits/sek and higher

take a look here, a work view of *some* cross ocean Internet trunks can be shown, closer go into by clicking


Global Network

those a "public" networks, I wouldn't be surprised to see some more, not for the grands public, but military used only trunks.

Expensive, but also working for continent-continent connection, is the way over satelit.