Internet 2

[BoyEngland]

CIO Today

I first saw this yesterday but I couldn't find the article today, I posted one off a random site I found.

They say that ,what will basically the second internet, could have a transfer rate of anyhwere around 100GB/S!!!

Just to put it into perspective, I have an 11MB/S wireless connection running on a slow *** computer. I can download most music in easily less than 5 minutes (sometimes less than 2) and full DVD quality movies in an hour or two.

Although a 100GB/s network is in development, actual tests maxed out at around 9.08GB/s which is still many many times faster than the average internet connection.

This amazed me more than anything though, they are saying that 9.08GB/s is still slow!

They are saying that the current "sluggish" internet2 system would take about half a minute to transfer a full HD movie, but the new 100GB/s system in production wouldn't even take that long!

Personal observation:

- Average movie download is about 700mb from Limewire. They are obviously bigger on most other sites and also HD movies take up a lot more space. Round it up to 1GB for argument's sake.

- 1 HD movie download in half a minute on the "sluggish" Internet 2 system.

- This means 2 movies per minute, hense 2GB per minute.

- You could fill an 80GB HD in 40 Minutes, and a 120GB HD in only an hour.

NOTE: Not all movies are that small and my calculations are based on downloading 1 movie at a time.

I will be very stereotypical here and say that in the time it takes to make a cup of tea, you could have already downloaded at least 10 movies! Thats a lot if you ask me.

All they need to do now is create a DVD burner and software that can write them in a few minutes, and disks that wont melt/shatter while spinning at a bajillion RPM.

Discuss!

[discombobulate]

A teacher I had last year would always ramble on about "Interent 2". She always talked about how it would have the capability to stream full screen hd quality video from user to user. That sounded amazing, this, it's obnxious. In a good way.

[Allstar]

I'd love to hear about this Interent 2 bob..

[dansdarkside]

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
Bill Gates

Makes you wonder.

[kevinXcore]

what im interested in knowing, is how will they make this work? theres dial up which uses phone, and i have comcast which runs off of the cable.

[shadow1768]

Maybe Fiber Optics, just a guess though

[BoyEngland]

Originally Posted by shadow1768

Maybe Fiber Optics, just a guess though

Its a possibility.

I know that my ISP (RoadRunner/Brighthouse Networks) are extensively swapping out old lines for fiber optics. My area isnt fortunate to have it yet but they its coming.

But having said that, fiber optics is expensive and so will the new system itself. Dont be surprised if you are paying double, triple, or god knows how ever much else for your internet if this ever goes public.

They said that the first recording used standard TCP and the second one used a "modified" one. Another thing they are saying is that totally new applications will have to be developed with the project, so maybe we will see some other way of trasfering the data instead of cable or even fiber optics.