Speed in the USA - suks Vista News Discuss Speed in the USA - suks in the Windows Vista forums; Internet2 hits 100Gbps, could scale 10x beyond that By Nate Anderson | Published: October 09, 2007 - 10:41PM CT While locally the newest tech called 30 Mile Wi-Max, which has ...

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Internet2 hits 100Gbps, could scale 10x beyond that
By Nate Anderson | Published: October 09, 2007 - 10:41PM CT

While locally the newest tech called 30 Mile Wi-Max, which has been struggling for almost 2 yrs, has officially throttled us to 750 kbps.. Speeds when Wi-max was DHCP was in the 1.2 to 1.5 Gbps range, 6 months later they moved to PPPOE which lowered speeds to 750 to 1.2 gbps. Bigger cities get GREAT SPEEDS the Average is 4 mbps $22.00 a month .. while Rural America pays avg $60.00 for 750 to 1.2 Gbps and if you have to use Satellite far less speed and throttled download per amounts for average $60.00 a month

The prospect of dialing up a dedicated 10Gbps optical link between your office and another firm across the country became a reality today—at least, if your office is a member of Internet2. The research network announced at its fall meeting that it had completed a major upgrade to its national infrastructure, which now operates at 100Gbps and allows researchers to provision their own dedicated links for limited periods of time.

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The main network remains IP-based and connects more than 200 universities, in addition to limited connections to government and industry facilities. Each network segment now features a set of 10 10Gbps links, each running on a separate wavelength of light, for a total of 100Gbps of bandwidth. And that's only the start; Internet2 says it can scale each segment to handle up to 100 wavelengths in the future. That's... a lot of star charts.

Most intriguing is the network's new Dynamic Circuit Network feature, which will allow researchers to set up dedicated, 10Gbps point-to-point connections across the network for short-term data transfer. The service will go live in January 2008, but it already works. In a demonstration today, Dr. Carl Lundstedt, of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, set up a connection between his school and the Fermilab research park in Batavia, Illinois. With bandwidth provisioned, Lundstedt then transferred one-third of a terabyte of data between the two places. It took five minutes.

Source for complete article: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...yond-that.html