That is quite interesting, could be used as a good learning tool, as could setup good tutoring tools, amoung other educatinal things. Oh one more, a good internet libary.
Could also make for a really fast filesharing network. So college students can transfer homework assignments and such of course. L J
I read something some place along the lines of someone downloaded the ENTIRE Matrix DVD in 30 secs using this Internet2 Connection. Or it could have been passed between 2 uni's (one on each coast). Even still its damn quick.
Theres been a spree of lawsuit type shindigs going on in UNI's with P2P launched by the RIAA and the MPAA. They discovered that *shock horror* students weren't using their ultra fast connections to share small txt and rtf files, but in fact, were sharing movies music games and pr0n.
Lol, I thought you were talkin bout Google then, cause RTT posted a link. But anyway.. Yeah, this seems like cool tech, but how long before we get speeds like that at home? Theres also something goin with it called IPv6, which is basically because there are not enough IP addresses to go around, becuse an IP addy is a 32 bit number. Ipv6 uses 128 bit numbers, enough, apparently, for a billion separate addresses for every bacterium on Earth. It also allows for easier routing and better security. Apparently, if everyone on Earth was given an IPv6 address for every second of their life, you wouldnt run out in the lifetime of the universe. JUst a little bit of overkill, no?
Isn't that what they said about 16-bit computers? But, yeah. Better to overkill now than have to completely re-wire the internet again in 20-30 years.
I think it was 30 minutes. At least according to the news when they were reporting the MPAA going after I2 users. Especially considering that's ~283MByte/sec, and good luck finding a hard drive that can do that (or a LAN card for that matter, that's over 2Gbit/sec). Assuming a full 8.5GB disk. And all that downloading is is transfering between two places, it's just generally not thought of as being between two colleges. ozstriker... you read the article in MaxPC didn't you? Those numbers sound awfully familiar. Still... promising. And timing-wise, I'll probably be in college while it's going widespread nationwide so I'll get it for four years for free while the prices drop
since its rounded off with GB's and Mb's since 1024Mb's = 1GB although most people interpret it as 1000MB's = 1GB it's pretty stupid in a way... it's rounded up (that why you get 64mb,128mb256mb,512mb,1024mb ram stick's (e.c.t) )
You can get a ipV6 subnet + tunnel to ipV4 from https://tb.ipv6.btexact.com/ if anyone wants to play with it...
CERN The CERN is also using the internet II for testing the data transfer capability of information obtained with their Particle Accelerator... which is capable of generate several hundreds of GB in seconds....
