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Who Cares About The Fastest Internet Ever?
By NewsFactor Network
News Source
Article Date: 2003-03-19
The latest land-speed record in Internet transmission was all about networking smarter, not faster. But that's not how it was publicized.
Those who caught the announcement last week that researchers at Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) had broken an Internet land-speed record might be forgiven for expressing a collective shrug. The SLAC'ers announced they had sent 6.7 billion bytes of data at a rate of 1 billon bits, or 1 gigabit, per second over 10,000 kilometers between Sunnyvale, California, and their collaborators at the NIKHEF institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with help from Caltech.
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