While most home users living in India tend to be satisfied with the "broadband" speeds of 256Kbps(that too shared), upto 2Mbps in case of BSNL lines, our friends in Japan and other developed countries seem to have different needs altogether.During my 1 year stay in London I had experienced a 10Mbps speeds on our University LAN/T1 connection and about 8Mbps(BT Broadband) when I moved into a separate apartment with one of my friends. Home users in Korea and Japan have 80Mbps connections!!! While TRAI feels proud of classifying 256Kbps as broadband...and our service providers are busy robbing the poor customers with silly data limits("plans starting at 250 with a 200MB data limit", can you friggin believe that???only the downloading of virus definitions, windows updates and OS elements as DirectX,.NET FRAMEWORK can eat it up in ONE SITTING, broadband revolution my ass!!) and crappy bandwidths, the people at the University of Tokyo have given us something more to drool over.
The Internet 2 consortium just announced that scientists working at the University Of Tokyo slammed gigabytes of information on an around-the-world path at more than 9 Gigabits!!! per second....phew!!!! This was done in early December and January.
The path started in Tokyo and stretched 20,000 miles going through Chicago, Amsterdam, Seattle and then back to Tokyo. The initial try on December 30th achieved speeds of 7.67 gigabits per second. After some tuning, the scientists reached 9.08 Gbps on New Year’s Eve.The theoretical limit of the Internet 2 is 10 Gbps on a single link.
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