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5c077
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2 edits | typo? might wanna fix your typo ... it's 100pbps not 100pbmps
EDIT: nevermind.... wtf is a petabit meter anyway? sorry for my lack of reading it right  | |
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| zengei
join:2002-11-26
Bronx, NY | Transfering one petabit of data over one meter of cable in one second. | |
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Iridium
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join:2003-04-02
Los Angeles, CA | Re: typo? 1 petabit is 1000 terabits | |
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nerdling301
join:2004-01-12
Brookline, MA
| Re: Sick of these? said by gatorkram  :
Is anyone else sick of hearing about these "speed" records? What good is it doing anyone? I don't see my speeds getting faster, and cheaper from this, does anyone else?
Seems to me, there is lots of money out there in the world, and no ons is using it to make the internet better and faster for everyone else. Maybe I am missing something?
i agree totally with gatorkram, let us know when it applies to us at home!
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join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
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| Re: Sick of these? Problem is normal people don't see this as what it is. a test. a test of new technology their tests may lead to a break threw that provides even 1 gig links to your house. How would you like to not hear about any technology which may lead to a new break threw?
Thought so.
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nerdling301
join:2004-01-12
Brookline, MA
| Re: Sick of these? said by BosstonesOwn :
Problem is normal people don't see this as what it is. a test. a test of new technology their tests may lead to a break threw that provides even 1 gig links to your house. How would you like to not hear about any technology which may lead to a new break threw?
Thought so.
actually, i couldn't care less. just wake me up when verizon's offering straight fiber to EVERYONE'S house in the USA
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nerdling301
join:2004-01-12
Brookline, MA | Re: Sick of these? RRGH you know what i mean
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dslsynch
join:2003-05-22
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employee. i talked to a vz 2nd liner last week. dracut and woburn mass are getting fttp now. vz has thrown a hundred extra outside plant techs into massachusetts for the job. i don't know why these two communities were picked. call some one at vadi and ask them why. 4017211200
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Ianguy
join:2002-06-09
Tehachapi, CA | never say never... there was a time when no one would ever have dreamed of our current level of information technology. We will see very high speed connections in the home... eventually. | |
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| swiftymc
join:2004-02-15
Mansfield Center, CT
| said by gatorkram :
Is anyone else sick of hearing about these "speed" records? What good is it doing anyone? I don't see my speeds getting faster, and cheaper from this, does anyone else?
Seems to me, there is lots of money out there in the world, and no ons is using it to make the internet better and faster for everyone else. Maybe I am missing something?
Yea...I TOTALLY agree...what good is all this if im still stuck on 1.5/256 for $30 a month | |
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join:2003-09-01
Aruba
| To all of you out there, your are still lucky. Just check this out. Here in Aruba (One happy island) I have to pay US$350 for 1Mb/256 Dsl to my local ISP SETARNET (»www.setardsl.aw) (Monopoly). Anyone out there interested to bring other companies to the island for some competition? | |
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join:2004-02-15
Mansfield Center, CT
| Re: Sick of these? said by Rwerleman :
To all of you out there, your are still lucky. Just check this out. Here in Aruba (One happy island) I have to pay US$350 for 1Mb/256 Dsl to my local ISP SETARNET (»www.setardsl.aw) (Monopoly). Anyone out there interested to bring other companies to the island for some competition?
!!!!!!!$350? A MONTH?
Tell me its atleast some kinad business package where they rent you a cheap car along with it  | |
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X
join:2003-05-27
Sacramento, CA | i personally am sick to my stomach of hearing all this crap aboiut "new speed record" while a regular consumer doesnt even have a goddamn 20Mbps in USA. | |
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72276539
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Atlanta, GA | Wow, incredibly shortsighted people. | |
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jap
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join:2003-08-10
038xx | Re: Sick of these? agreed | |
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DaSneaky1D
one wall to block them all
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join:2001-03-29
The Lou
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| The cheaper and faster ISP's can carry data, the more it will roll down to end users. Trust me, you are already feeling the affect of ISP's moving away from ATM network backbones to IP/MPLS backbones. You can get twice the data rate using the same speed interface. More economic, so the cost is handed down.
It all comes in time.
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bell_s
join:2003-08-22
Romania
| well .. how about this?
god forbid some1 in your family gets sick ( i do not wish that just using it as an example) and they put him through a CAT scan or different new devices that record pretty much everything that is going on in a human body. and that data has an impressive size... but unfortunately that hospital does not have the computing power to thoroughly analyze that data and give you a exact answer to what is going on to your kid... and they need to send that huge amount of data to some university across the country or across the world ... would you trust fedex with the life of your loved one? the same scenario applies to research on new medicine ... there are huge amounts of data that come out of these experiments. the only thing you are interested is how fast you can get it... to me it seems a little childish ... not to mention selfish ... yes .. very selfish ... say what you want but i am happy and i would like to shake the hands of those people because it's from people like those that new innovations come every day to help save lives and make them easyer... you are only interested in how fast you can download this and that and in being able to brag to your friends how fast your net is ... i say ... get a clue ... you will never see these speeds and never will need them ... but knowing that universities can communicate and send the data they get from experiments to someone who really needs it is really comforting.
you are missing everything since your judgement is clouded by selfishness....
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IntraLink
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join:2002-08-14
Utah Valley | That's a cool picture of Speed Racer! Goes to show that NetBSD has the coding power to push the bits, that's for sure! | |
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tiger72
SexaT duorP
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join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
clubs: | 43 hops over existing infrastructure what makes this one interesting is that it required 43 hops, 3 times crossing the atlantic, and 450ms to get there over EXISTING Sprint infrastructure on a single 2.8ghz xeon with 1GB RAM.
that, at least to me is amazing. | |
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justin
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join:1999-05-28
Brooklyn, NY | Re: 43 hops over existing infrastructure yeah thats a wall of data, but the ping time sucks | |
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1234test
@bowne.com
| I am glad they are showing what today's off the shelf technology can do. This means that:
1) both their client and servers can handle incoming and outgoing high speed data delivery.
2) Sprint (and other high end ISP) are able to redeploy their existing fiber and routers to backbone locations that need it.
3) we are getting closer to HDTV two-way communication in the near future (2010) in our household.
The biggest bottleneck is getting new equipment to households at reasonable cost (digging up the ground). I am sorry but the existing telephone wire for DSL or hub-spoke cable infrastructure is not going to cut it. Also, I (and maybe others) will not be willing to pay the more money to Universal Service Fund (USF) to supply fiber to everyone household. I have the option of getting cable or DSL at a reasonable price rural users do not.
The end equipment is not the major cost since prices come down each year for better equipment. For example, what is stopping anyone from deploying a 5/8 port gigaswitch in their existing household to play multi-player high end games? The data transfer is not the problem but the end equipment processing the incoming/outgoing data. I backup my temp directory (7 gigabytes) to another hard disk via docking station and it takes about 10 minutes (Windows XP on laptop). It is not going to be any faster using gigaswitch to another machine.
I am glad these organizations are using existing equipment and infrastructure to test what can be done today. This will allow developers and equipment vendors (Intel, Cisco, UNIX, Microsoft, etc) to know what issues that will encounter. For example, what happens if you drop a packet? How do you recover the data at these speeds without slowing down the tranfer greatly? | |
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Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
clubs: | Guarantee I guarantee that in the future peeps will be all, "Such and such ISP is ripping me off because I only get 1.5pbms and they wouldn't be doing this if they didn't have a monopoly in my area." | |
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India | Big bill Wonder how big the bill would be at an ISP that charges per MB after 500MB or 1GB / month :-o | |
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mrchris
We don't miss you Bush
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join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY | Meh Ask me if I care about backbone speeds...
Why must they torture us broadband users with absymal transfer speeds used by backbones and such?  | |
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Neil
Stop All The Downloadin
join:2003-08-20
New York, NY | Re: Meh Because in the end, the backbone speed applies, to you, the user. | |
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Battlespire
join:2002-08-11
Edmundston, NB
| Speed record are fun! hihihi President of an corp : What is the use for internet 2?
Marketing guy: to make speed records and do research on speed records.
PoaC: If we only need a 10 mbits line, wouldn't be cheaper if we use normal internet and encrypt our packets?
Marketing guy: but internet 2 is fun!
Makes as much sense as this »www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/193373 . | |
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join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
clubs: | Re: Speed record are fun! hihihi I2 is for universities only so it doesn't get scummed up like the first did , with porn and such.
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Goldengamego
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Okemos, MI
1 edit |  Goof for us to
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sbdjaro
I Dunno
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Grand Junction, CO | Re: Goof for us to Hummm, thats only about 500MB/s.... | |
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Okemos, MI | Re: Goof for us to Do you mean Megabytes or Megabits?
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sbdjaro
I Dunno
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Grand Junction, CO | Re: Goof for us to B= bytes
b= bits
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sbdjaro
I Dunno
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Grand Junction, CO | Re: Me, Me and ME!!! Agreed!! Took it right out of my head. | |
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wbedard
join:2001-12-28
Fort Washington, MD
| Pbmps defined Since nobody answered the initial poster's question, allow me to give a brief, if not rigerously accurate, definition of the term. Peta-bit-meters-per-second is a term that acknowledges the fact that there are tradeoffs when transferring data. The shorter the distance, the faster you can generally transfer data (think about what goes on inside your CPU). Likewise, longer distances require a slower rate (as is the case with NASA's link to the Mars Global Surveyor). Distance multiplied by speed (i.e. pbmps) just allows for advancements in either speed -or- distance to be given credit. While advancements in CPU speed will not likely ever break into Internet2's accomplishments, advanced links between Earth and future missions to Mars and elseware could conceivably advance the mark some due to the great distances involved. That will be a tough challenge, however, since I don't believe that the vacuum of space can conduct as much data as modern fiber-optic cable. We'll have to wait and see...:>)
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elbundi
join:2001-08-22
Leesburg, GA
| forward thinkers all those 'yawners' above probably never got beyond connecting two tin cans together with a piece of string in an endeavor to discover what science and technology can acheive.
thank god they usually end up in dead end jobs counting peanuts on a conveyer belt. | |
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AcidLoops
join:2000-12-26
Upland, CA | Backbone connection Hah you people who demand this as your home connection are tards. This is faster then even current backbone connection speeds.
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Battlespire
join:2002-08-11
Edmundston, NB
| hey. me,myself and i All i want is the local school and hospital to have bigger broadband and for free. I really don't care if i get dialup 56k again.
Why i don't like those speed records because for me it has no practical use. This is for 2 computers running own the same stream sharing the same data. The reality have millions of computers sharing different types of data routing differently and not at the same destination. For me there is no technology that would come out from those tests. For me its just fame, unless you think that giving more money to telcos will help them spending more on researching hardware to route data. I have to say that the super computer research "Intel and Macs" helps design new boards, new chips, and new software that helps in the global computing that we have today.
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Dr Demento
I Vant Blud
join:2002-01-02
Denville, NJ
2 edits | Do we drive cars everywhere at 200mph? When dragracers in the early 1960s starting with Kent were breaking the 200mph in the pro drag racing circuit did we see cars in the consumer marker that broke the 200mph mark, no? And even now, only a hand full of exotics with 150k being the cheapest can break this mark while still being street legal, not counting the 4, 6cyl and rotary cars that broke the mark on the flats. The question is with cars that can go over 200mph where can we drive at these speeds, I think so far interstate 80 in the US, the autobahn and of course any other 8 lane highway in the world that stretches for more than 600 miles. And even there we will probably need to take up at least two lanes while turning.
Why am I saying this, because this compares to the practicality of that 124pbps/pbmps mark. Even though it is not practical and achievable with most of our connections, it is nice to nice that our current technology can go those speeds. And even if someone does use those speeds on internet1, where can it be used practically? But that does not mean it will impractical forever.;)
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join:2004-04-19
Huntington Beach, CA | Re: Do we drive cars everywhere at 200mph? Not really a good analogy. Cars are limited by external reasons such as safety. Bandwidth does not have that consideration. | |
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join:2004-08-19
England | Re: Your Peta has been bit by the Juice! What a load of twaddle thou dost speak. juiceboosted.com is stil running, albeit at a vastly slow speed. All forums have been closed on this matter. Wonder why? | |
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d_man60112
join:2004-06-09
Cortland, IL |  Now I can back up....
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rpsmith
join:2004-04-19
Huntington Beach, CA | Weak. Only 1831 gigs of porn per hour? Pfft. What crap. Slow. | |
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