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Internet 2 Landspeed Record: Ooops, they did it again!
Aparently the folks from the Swedish University Network (SUNet) at
Lulea managed to break their previous Internet 2 Landspeed record
for both single and multiple streams, using NetBSD again.
Comparison:
- Old record:
- 838860800000 bytes in 1588 real seconds = 4226 Mbit/sec o
- Distance: 16,343 km (10,157 miles)
- 69.073 Petabit-meters/second (12% increase)
- New record:
- 1966080000000 bytes in 3648.81 real seconds = 4310.62 Mbit/sec
- Distance: 28,983 km (18,013 miles)
- 124.935 Petabit-meters/second (78.6% increase)
The big difference in distance and thus the record itself is due
to suboptimal routing, crossing the ocean three times. Nonetheless,
thanks to a newer version of end machines' operating system
-- a prerelease of NetBSD 2.0 -- and some newer routers, this
record was achieved on a production network just in the previous
case. See the project pages for
single stream and
multiple streams
for more information!
[Tags: internet2, networking, record]
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