INTERNET PERFORMANCE RECORDS SMASHED IN INTERNET2 LAND SPEED RECORD COMPETITION
Caltech and CERN send more than one terabyte of data across 7,000 km of network at 5.44 Gbps
Indianapolis, IN, October 16, 2003 - An international team has set a new
Internet2(R) Land Speed Record by transferring 1.1 terabytes of data across
more than 7,000 kilometers (nearly 4,300 miles) of network in less than 30
minutes, representing an average rate of more than 5.44 gigabits per second,
more than 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection.
The mark of 38,420.54 terabit-meters per second was set by a team consisting
of members from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN.
The last figure appears to me to be nonsense. When I make a journey there are two relevant figures: my speed, and the distance I travelled. The product of the two is meaningless.
