sprint corp and swedish firm sunet have set a new data transfer record.
840GB of data traveled 10,000 miles in a time of 27 minutes.
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Officials said no special hardware or connections were needed, as the data traversed Sprint's global Internet backbone, SprintLink, and the GigaSunet IP backbone at 4.23Gbit/sec. Along the way, it traversed 40 IP routers, 35 of which were in the SprintLink network. The end hosts were standard Dell 2650 servers, each running a single Intel Xeon 2-GHz process with 512MB of RAM.
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source:computerworld
http://www.computerworld.com/network...,00.html?f=x10
we need fast networks over in the uk
