[56403] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Salus)
Fri Mar 7 16:28:27 2003
To: nanog@nanog.org
Cc: adamkuj@amplex.net
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 15:27:50 -0600
From: Peter Salus <peter@matrix.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>It would have been nice if the reporter bothered to mention that "Internet
>speed records" are measured in terabit meters per second. An article
>about "Internet speed records" that doesn't include the actual record, or even
>a definition of the term "Internet speed record", is hardly deserving of
placement on the front of cnn.com. Slow news day?
I'm sorry to inform you guys that cnn.com just picked this up
from the BBC, yesterday. And the Beeb got the spin wrong,
too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2822333.stm
Peter
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