so i've been reading tons about this Internet2 (a.k.a UCAID: University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development) stuff, and to tell you the truth, i'm fairly excited about 100 gigabits/sec transfer rates. can you imagine youtube in HD?!?!"Scientists are racing to move gigantic amounts of data by 2007, when CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will switch on. This huge underground particle accelerator will produce some 15 petabytes of data a year, which will be stored and analyzed on a global grid of computer centers."
i'm sure tha some of you have already heard of this since this has been being developed since 2004 (or at least that what i could find out), when scientists "transferred 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes. It did so at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second between the CERN facility in Geneva, Switzerland, and Caltech in Pasadena, Calif., a distance of more than 15,766 kilometers, or approximately 9,800 miles."
my good friend anthony turned me on to this whole thing earlier this year, and we've both kind of been watching this concept continue to take shape. who's developing you ask? 208 universities and tech companies like cisco, comcast, intel and sun microsystems, to name a few. apparently, sometime in december, they're gonna launch this internet2 between chicago, new york, and washington, for health care and research purposes. totally cool or totally scary...you be the judge! let me know what you think about all of this...it's been a huge topic at the local watering hole.
*update*
A gigabit is as follows (thanks for pointing that out junior!):
In data communications, a gigabit is one billion bits, or 1,000,000,000 bits. It's commonly used for measuring the amount of data that is transferred in a second between two telecommunication points. For example, Gigabit Ethernet is a high-speed form of Ethernet (a local area network technology) that can provide data transfer rates of about 1 gigabit per second. Gigabits per second is usually abbreviated Gbps.
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