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Academia does.
(old news - 10:12AM Saturday Dec 06 2003)
tags: Fiber · alternatives
GridToday offers an update on academia's private fiber superhighway. National LambdaRail, Inc, a consortium of research universities and the private sector, successfully lit the initial segment in November connecting the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to the Extensible Terascale Facility in Chicago. Capable of 400 billion bits of data a second, the private network was designed to avoid the "Internet's increased congestion and high level of security breaches" that can hinder research efforts.

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IGotThePower
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Got fiber

Got fiber? I do!
400 billion bits/s? Ain't that faster than Internet2?
permalink · 2003-12-06 10:15:19 · Reply to this

AlkalineArmy
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Re: Got fiber

Yeah, I think Internet2 is 10 Gbps as opposed to 400 Gbps.
permalink · 2003-12-06 10:47:57 · Reply to this

ronpin
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Re: Got fiber

Great, it's about as useful as the space program is to the average taxpayer.
permalink · 2003-12-06 11:03:25 · Reply to this

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Re: Got fiber

said by ronpin See Profile:
Great, it's about as useful as the space program is to the average taxpayer.
Actuall, many useful things have come out of the space program. I predict many useful things will come of this, but it will be several years down the road before we see many of those benefits.
permalink · 2003-12-06 11:15:18 · Reply to this

juicelee
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 Believe it or not, some of the technology from the star wars program helped to correct my near-sightedness with laser surgery. I'm sure a lot of other useful civilian applications were derived from that government research. Like damonlab said, it takes time for that stuff to trickle down to the taxpayer.
permalink · 2003-12-06 14:42:26 · Reply to this

elias
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Re: Got fiber

said by juicelee See Profile:
Believe it or not, some of the technology from the star wars program helped to correct my near-sightedness with laser surgery. I'm sure a lot of other useful civilian applications were derived from that government research. Like damonlab said, it takes time for that stuff to trickle down to the taxpayer.
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permalink · 2003-12-08 09:50:52 · Print · Reply to this
bmn
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said by ronpin See Profile:
Great, it's about as useful as the space program is to the average taxpayer.
Talk about narrow sighted...

Actually, Tang, velcro and several medicines and such were developed with the aid of the space program.
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permalink · 2003-12-06 18:25:43 · Print · Reply to this

IGotThePower
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Japan Inc.		 No, it was about the same price as the fastest ADSL, and plus, I can choose what ISP I want, that's why I took it. Next time, a Quad ADSL will suit me fine.
permalink · 2003-12-06 23:08:16 · Reply to this

fartness
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clubs:		 Could host a heck of a pr0n server if someone connected it WAN wise to the net.
permalink · 2003-12-06 17:43:46 · Reply to this
SunCam

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setup need fiber?
Hi do you know how much Fiber is for a home user?
thanks Ross@suncam.tv im looking to get fiber into this home. »www.suncam.tv/ not my wireless. but my home i have dsl now! could some one help me and send me a email?
thanks i live in south Florida
permalink · 2003-12-10 10:49:16 · Print · Reply to this

IGotThePower
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Re: Got fiber

Sorry dude, I'm from Japan. Come here and you'll be able to make a redundant fiber connection at a reasonable price.I mean under 200$...
permalink · 2003-12-10 11:06:47 · Reply to this
SunCam

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Re: Got fiber

wow! no way,, thats a good deal i think! im moving to Japan lol wow nice!
Ross
permalink · 2003-12-10 11:39:05 · Reply to this

broknsymetry
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400 gbps huh?

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Atlanta and Washington should be connected by the superhighway by April of 2004. Atlanta to Dallas and Atlanta to Jacksonville sections will follow shortly afterwards.

Georgia Tech, the only Atlanta member of the developing consortium, plans to make resources available to over 20 colleges throughout the state through the use of an electronic "on ramp" which they plan to manage.
Gee, I remember just 25 years ago having 110 baud on the Georgia University Network and being happy about it! We've come a long way baby! It won't be long before it's commercialized and vandalized though.
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permalink · 2003-12-06 10:36:39 · Print · Reply to this

FLECOM
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Re: 400 gbps huh?

didnt ARPA Net use T1s? or something equivilant to that... 1.54mbits?

dunno but i had a 300baud modem in my Apple IIe back in 1984 ish
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permalink · 2003-12-06 13:23:13 · Reply to this
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Re: 400 gbps huh?

said by FLECOM See Profile:
didnt ARPA Net use T1s? or something equivilant to that... 1.54mbits?
It started out in the very beginning with less than T1 lines, but soon upgraded. I'm not sure when they did, but eventually they moved to T3s when that was the fastest thing you could get. Of course ARPANET is all but gone since the military and government started using networks from the major backbone providers.
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permalink · 2003-12-06 21:56:48 · Print · Reply to this

IGotThePower
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Re: 400 gbps huh?

Yeah, like now they're using GBLX, which was sold to the Singaporean government, for nothing more than 250mil. What a bunch of morons...
permalink · 2003-12-06 23:21:15 · Reply to this

Gbcue
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Just another reason...

Just another reason to start rolling out fiber to my house!
permalink · 2003-12-06 14:06:02 · Reply to this

Drunkula
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Yeah I got fiber

That is I have a few fiber patches around here somewhere. Too bad they aren't connected to anything.
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permalink · 2003-12-06 14:52:01 · Reply to this

Synon29

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Re: Yeah I got fiber

I have fiber, I get it everyday in my diet. Other than that I don't see fiber coming to my town for at least the next 10 to 15 years. I suppose in the mean time they can fill me up on dsl lite.
permalink · 2003-12-06 16:10:03 · Reply to this
indy0365

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Franklin, IN

Re: Yeah I got fiber

didnt we ge fiber optics from them crashed ufo s ?
permalink · 2003-12-06 21:30:59 · Reply to this
nickpdx
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Re: Yeah I got fiber

the Lamba Rail thing looks like it passes through portland from their map

wonder how long it is until i can get fiber here at my house - im in the middle of the city and i can only get Qwest DSL (640/128 ?) and Comcast Cable which i have so....:(
permalink · 2003-12-06 21:56:30 · Reply to this

rrypma

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Dobbs Ferry, NY

Re: Yeah I got fiber

What kind of things could service providers dish out that isn't possible given our current infrastructure? Cannot what we have in place already sustain movies on demand and so forth even at HD resolutions? I have no idea, but just curious.
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permalink · 2003-12-07 18:05:57 · Reply to this

DMFDGreywolf

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Re: Yeah I got fiber

I have fiber and I love it. My ISP is still growing so it doesnt have alot of bandwidth yet. Even still I get 2 megabits down and 1.5 megabits up. The GM at the ISP told me they are making money so next year those speeds will be double.
permalink · 2003-12-10 21:10:41 · Reply to this
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