[96309] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: from the academic side of the house
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Sun Apr 29 19:56:11 2007
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:52:10 +0000
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
To: JP Velders <jpv@veldersjes.net>
Cc: bmanning@karoshi.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0704291354060.11969@jp-gp.vsi.nl>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 01:57:26PM +0200, JP Velders wrote:
> 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
we -love- the crazy Japanese doing this kind of stuff.
the US folks seemed to have lost momentum in the past decade.
while the pipes do get re-purposed on a regular basis, they
do tend to shake out interoperable problems, as you note above.
me, i await the spiral loop that includes the southern
hemisphere ...
--bill
