MrBishop
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The Internet2 advanced networking consortium is preparing to open the world's fastest Internet backbone which will connect Chicago, New York and Washington at speeds up to 100Gbits per second.
The 20,920km network will initially be open to research and healthcare organisations and operate at a speed that could rise to 400Gbps if the higher-capacity circuits are implemented. But even at 100Gbps it is 10 times faster than the current Internet2 network, which opened in 1998.
By the middle of 2007 the new network will be extended to cover all the 46,000 organisations currently connected to the existing Internet2 infrastructure.
As well as aiding data-intensive research projects, the new backbone is expected to make remote surgery common practice - where surgeons carry out operations by controlling robotic equipment over the Net.
'The big problem with health care using the Internet for actual clinical practice is that the quality of service is quite questionable,' said Mike McGill, manager of the health-sciences initiative for Internet2. 'If you were actually doing remote telesurgery or telepathology or tele-anything, there is a chance you can get congestion on the network. The new network allows us to dedicate portions of the network to specific activities, so the quality of service people can expect on the network is clearly going to be better, and will allow them confidence.'
Most of the new bandwidth will be allocated to science projects to transmit date from atomic collisions in particle accelerators, for example. It will also let astronomers connect radio telescopes in real time, effectively creating a single enormous eye into space.
Which will not leave much room for ordinary Internet users, who may have to wait as long as five years or more for these latest Internet2 technologies to trickle down.
Simon Aughton
Now this is FAST
The 20,920km network will initially be open to research and healthcare organisations and operate at a speed that could rise to 400Gbps if the higher-capacity circuits are implemented. But even at 100Gbps it is 10 times faster than the current Internet2 network, which opened in 1998.
By the middle of 2007 the new network will be extended to cover all the 46,000 organisations currently connected to the existing Internet2 infrastructure.
As well as aiding data-intensive research projects, the new backbone is expected to make remote surgery common practice - where surgeons carry out operations by controlling robotic equipment over the Net.
'The big problem with health care using the Internet for actual clinical practice is that the quality of service is quite questionable,' said Mike McGill, manager of the health-sciences initiative for Internet2. 'If you were actually doing remote telesurgery or telepathology or tele-anything, there is a chance you can get congestion on the network. The new network allows us to dedicate portions of the network to specific activities, so the quality of service people can expect on the network is clearly going to be better, and will allow them confidence.'
Most of the new bandwidth will be allocated to science projects to transmit date from atomic collisions in particle accelerators, for example. It will also let astronomers connect radio telescopes in real time, effectively creating a single enormous eye into space.
Which will not leave much room for ordinary Internet users, who may have to wait as long as five years or more for these latest Internet2 technologies to trickle down.
Simon Aughton
Now this is FAST
