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NEW WORLD RECORD FOR INTERNET PERFORMANCE SET

Caltech and CERN top new performance threshold by sending 859GB at more 
than 6.6 Gbps across nearly 16,000 km

Ann Arbor, Mich. – September 1, 2004 – An international team has broken 
their own record and set a new Internet2(R) Land Speed Record by 
transferring 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes across nearly 
16,000 kilometers of networks at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second, 
about 10,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection. The 
record was set by a team consisting of members from the California 
Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN using the same IPv4 protocols 
deployed throughout the global Internet.

The Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) is an open and ongoing 
competition for the highest-bandwidth, end-to-end networks, with judging 
based on the speed of transfer multiplied by the distance traveled. 
Because of delays due to the speed of light and other factors, data 
transfer over the Internet becomes more challenging as speed, or 
distance, or both increase. With a mark of more than 104.5 
petabit-meters per second, this record is the first time the 100 
"petabump" performance threshold has been broken.

The record was set with the support of Microsoft Research 
(research.microsoft.com), S2io (www.s2io.com), Intel (www.intel.com), 
Cisco Systems (www.cisco.com), AMD (www.amd.com), Newisys 
(www.newisys.com), the U.S. National Science Foundation (www.nsf.gov), 
the U.S. Department of Energy (www.doe.gov), the European Union through 
the DataTAG project (www.datatag.org), and the Corporation for Education 
Network Initiatives in California (www.cenic.org).

More information can be found at: 
http://ultralight.caltech.edu/lsr_06252004/

Details of past winning entries, complete rules, submission guidelines, 
and additional details are available at: http://lsr.internet2.edu/

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About Internet2(R)
Led by more than 200 U.S. universities working with industry and 
government, Internet2 develops and deploys advanced network applications 
and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the 
creation of tomorrow’s Internet.  Internet2 recreates the partnerships 
among academia, industry, and government that helped foster today’s 
Internet in its infancy.  For more information, visit: www.internet2.edu.

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Internet2

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