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Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...

  • From: Peter Salus
  • Date: Fri Mar 07 16:30:05 2003 

>It would have been nice if the reporter bothered to mention that "Internet 
>speed records" are measured in terabit meters per second. An article 
>about "Internet speed records" that doesn't include the actual record, or even 
>a definition of the term "Internet speed record", is hardly deserving of 
placement on the front of cnn.com. Slow news day?

I'm sorry to inform you guys that cnn.com just picked this up
from the BBC, yesterday.  And the Beeb got the spin wrong, 
too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2822333.stm

Peter

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