[96305] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: from the academic side of the house
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JP Velders)
Sun Apr 29 07:56:21 2007
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:57:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: JP Velders <jpv@veldersjes.net>
To: bmanning@karoshi.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070424153651.GA29438@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 bmanning@karoshi.com wrote:
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:36:51 +0000
> From: bmanning@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
