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On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 01:57:26PM +0200, JP Velders wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 [email protected] wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:36:51 +0000 > > From: [email protected] > > Subject: from the academic side of the house > > > For the first set of IPv6 records, a team from the University of Tokyo, WIDE > > Project, NTT Communications, JGN2, SURFnet, CANARIE, Pacific Northwest > > Gigapop and other institutions collaborated to create a network path over > > 30,000 kilometers in distance, crossing 6 international networks - over 3/4 > > the circumference of the Earth. In doing so, the team successfully > > transferred data in the single and multi-stream categories at a rate of 7.67 > > Gbps which is equal to 230,100 terabit-meters per second (Tb-m/s). This > > record setting attempt leveraged standard TCP to achieve the new mark. > > Mind you, those crazy Japanese do this every year between christmas > and newyear... ;) Most of the pipes they used also carry other > research traffic throughout most of the year... This year was even > more cumbersome because of some issues with the OC192's between > Amsterdam and the USA... > > Kind regards, > JP Velders we -love- the crazy Japanese doing this kind of stuff. the US folks seemed to have lost momentum in the past decade. while the pipes do get re-purposed on a regular basis, they do tend to shake out interoperable problems, as you note above. me, i await the spiral loop that includes the southern hemisphere ... --bill
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