Imagine this. Download an entire DVD movie in the blink of an eye. It's now possible with Internet2.
Scientists at CERN were able to send 859GB of data in less than 17 minutes at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second, a speed that equals the transfer of a full-length DVD movie in four seconds.
The transfer experiment was done between the Geneva, Switzerland home of CERN and Pasadena, California, where Caltech is based - a distance of approximately 15,766 kilometres. Furthermore, this is the first time the 100-petabit metre per second mark has been broken. One petabit equals 1,000,000,000,000,000 bits.
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