from the academic side of the house

Sun Apr 29 11:57:26 UTC 2007

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 bmanning at karoshi.com wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:36:51 +0000
> From: bmanning at karoshi.com
> 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