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Monday, March 17, 2003
Who Cares About the Fastest Internet Ever? - Tiernan Ray, NewsFactor Network
The latest land-speed record in Internet transmission was all about networking smarter, not faster. But that's not how it was publicized. Those who caught the announcement last week that researchers at Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) had broken an Internet land-speed record might be forgiven for expressing a collective shrug.... There were a lot of big numbers -- 6,800 miles between labs, US$1 million in donated equipment -- but a billion bits per second? New Macintosh PowerBooks already ship with Gigabit Ethernet connections. Indeed, the speed in question sounds far from earth-shattering. Why should onlookers feel awe? The secret is, the breakthrough is not about speed. It is about solving tricky networking problems. Communicating smarter, not faster, was the goal.
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