Well it will still be vulnerable to
a man, a match, and a mattress, but starting in January, the private
Internet2 will begin offering 100Gbps bandwidth in 10Gbps chunks over its fiber optic network. The tech behind these ridiculous speeds -- known as Dynamic Circuit Network -- is reportedly complete as of today, with a wrap party being held at the consortium's Fall Member Meeting in San Diego. Of course researchers will naturally tire of those 10Gbps pipes rather quickly, which is why Internet2 is already working on ramping up the bitrate to between 20Gbps and 100Gbps per line. We'd go into more detail, but our employer-supplied 1,000 hours of free dial-up are just about tapped out...
posted Oct 10th 2007 4:43PM
May the torrents begin.
Once (if) Internet2 is implemented everywhere, just watch everyone download pirated HD movies on the very same day the film editors have produced the final cut of the movie. lol
porn will never be the sam... lol
who's sam?
Getting a little tired of the porn jokes every time we talk about bandwidth / lag.
The internet is for porn.
well my first thought is what the hell would you do with that much bandwidth.. but these two posts above me answered that quite quickly
Isn't that what any man needs to live?
Porn, a cold beer, and a free hand.
... and oodles upon oodles of bandwidth to make the wait no longer there.
Research, will be better use of these lines then porn or torrents. Could you imagine some one rendering real time with data spread out all over the place that would be amazing.
set course for ludicrous speed
LMAO@ AOL giving y'all just 1000 hours if that were true that would be TERRIBLE
So, I can finally download pirated movies as quickly as I can blink my eye. Gruvy.
So, I can finally download pirated movies as quickly as I can blink my eye. Gruvy.
Oh, so they have internet on computers now! --Homer
I just want to say. Internet2 begins at my house. So, you can buy access from me.
There is about 3 computers already on it. :) -- Reduced speeds during testing 1gbps at this time.
I have a few extra AOL 1,000 Free Hour discs if you'd like them.
You mean coasters?
wow and my 3mbits was fast to me! woo hoo some researchers are going to have some sore hands after thet much porn!
looooooooool thats tru...... ontop of that piracy is also about to fly through the roof.
not a problem, they can only last for 15 seconds.
Pfft! L3's backbone has been running at these speeds for years. The upgrade to 400Gbps/fiber started over 18 months ago.
LOL now thats funny!
Dial up is so 90s. Get with the program man
There won't be any piracy so have fun having someone check out all the animal porn you download!
Since it will take forever to roll out 100Gbps, how about we move to 100Mbps first, like the rest of the world has.
where the hell in the world can you get those speeds (and i mean literally, 100)
i get 16/1.5, because i'm throttled to the point where my neck hurts.
Finland, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong all offer 100Mbps internet speeds. The United States is listed 16th on the world's speed charts.
Dig around on Google, you'll find the numbers. Or just go shopping in those respective countries (more are added all the time too).
Ok i have a 3mbps connection cause my phone company flat out sucks. In comparison, what does this mean in terms of speed boost? How much more quickly will everything be done?
I don't know if you're serious... but, 3Mbps means 3 Megabits per-second... a Mega bit is a million bits... 8 bits, is a byte, 1000 bytes, is a kilobyte and 1000 kilobytes, is a Megabyte... your average song is 4 megabytes... which is 32,000,000 bits... or, 32 Megabits...
Now... a giga bit... is 1 billion bits... which is 125 Megabytes... and we're talking 100 gigabits here, at 10 gigabit chunks? thats 1.250 Gigabytes per second, transfer rate... While you, on a 3 Megabit connection are only managing 375 Kilobytes per second.
Now, I'm not sure if all this techno-jargon makes any sense to you, or even if I got my conversions dead on... but, if not, I still know I'm in the general ballpark... So, hopefully that answers your question about how much of a speed boost you'd be getting.
GR
Cool Comparison but your numbers are off a bit. Computers Work in Base 2 not 10. So a 1 Kbyte is 2^10 Bytes = 1024 Bytes (close to 1000 but not exactly) and MB is 2^20 Bytes = 1024 Kbytes or 1048576 Bytes or 8388608 Bits.
Now MBits is not standard some people take it to mean 2^20 bits or 10^6 bits. In the computer worlds it is always 2^of something just the nature of being binary.
This is why when you buy a hard drive the number you see on the box is rarely the same as the number your computers displays.
With all that said a 3 Mbit connections is incredibly fast (Using base 2 Math because that is what I like) Your 3 Mbit connection is runing at 384 KBytes Per second. Or about a novel every 2.5 Seconds, and an average song every 10 Seconds.
In comparison in that same 2.5 Seconds on a 100 Gbit connection, you can download One encyclopedia , and a couple of DVDs.
Ok and in english? lol
"Ok and in english? lol"
it's really fucking fast.
OK since no one can give him any decent english numbers i'll do the task. :)
3mbp/s as he said is roughly 400kb/s
a song downloaded off itunes with a bitrate of (for the sake of things) is 192kb/s
so for every one second of downloading, you get roughly two seconds of song, so two minutes for a four minute song at the maximum theoretical speed (assuming the guys above me are any right.. i'm very busy but i thought i'd try to help)
1250 gigabytes per second.. (FUCKING FAST AS HELL)
think of well over 200 (probably pushing 250) dvd's. in ONE second.
you can't even find torrents to download that quickly so, basically it's like (assuming you have some dvd's, games, and pictures, videos and music in your house) being able to download EVERYTHING you've ever made on your computer/games console etc. etc. in about a second. literally.
it's quite fucking fast to say the least.
*note: i am fully aware of saying "english numbers" and my downloading a song scenario is what he'd face in real life scenarios. (ie. limewire.)
Did anyone actually read the article? It's only gonna be used for academic purposes. So yea, it's damn fast, but it's not like you can actually use it for torrents or anything. I'll stick with my 20mbit download that allows for torrents.
initially..its bound to reach the consumer market in no time.
Actually he's right this is strictly academic. It will never be released because they don't want their new wider tubes to be clogged up with your porn and poker. A replacement for the internet will com it just won't be Internet 2.
Indeed, in fact internet2 is operative since many years. So those 100gb will be for academic-only use :academic pron, academic p2p...
but can anyone actually upload that fast?
1ms ping times from coast to coast?
The max speed achieved is (in a ideal condition) 15ms cause the light speed is fast but not enough.
Physically impossible. It takes way longer than that for light to cross the continent. For example, NYC to LA is (according to http://www.mapcrow.info/Distance_between_New_York_US_and_Los_Angeles_US.html) is 2443.79 miles straight line. Light in a vacuum takes 13.1187382 milliseconds to go that far.
So, 13 ping is your best-case scenario between those two locations.
Won't ATT squash this and tell us again that "copper is good enough for you"?
It's just more convenient for me to have ATT tell me what I want. No decisions necessary!
I bet there will be a way to use it for illegal purposes even though it is intended for education. I know i have access to web space through my college. i can easily upload an illegal copy of a movie (let's say) and someone can download it if i give them the link. So if my college super-upgrades to this Internet2 then i can upload a movie and post a link online and people can d/l it.
(i'd probably get caught by my school real quick though) but its doable.
OH SNAP SON!!!
large universities already have this. anyone ever hear of i2hub? it was a huge napster pretty much, but only could use it when you were at school, on their connection but you could trade songs, movies, porn, whatever through any other school on an i2 network.
Yeah, it was rather glorious until The Man hopped on and started serving up DMCA notices at the same rate as the downloads :(
I2Hub was run on the Abilene network, created by the Internet2 group, which has a 10Gbps backbone and 100Mbps connectivity between each node. With recent network changes they are implementing, the Abilene name will be dropped in favour of just The Internet2 Network, and the speeds mentioned in the article will be achieved. Being able to request 10Gbps on demand per line is a significant step up from 100Mbps.
Wendell Daniel @ Oct 10th 2007 8:15PM
1ms ping times from coast to coast?
1ms? Hah, -10ms, Its so fast, It Time Travels!
would web servers even support these bandwidths?