July 16, 2008
Cern and High Speed Networks

Why I am scheming now.

The 15-petabyte network and the atom smasher - CNET News.com

Quote:

Andrew Sansum, tier one manager at RAL, said its connection with CERN is about 1,000 times faster than the download speeds on a home broadband connection.

It may be less than two decades before commercial networks catch up: "Video and other media services are going to push the speed of consumer network connections up as the demand is going to be huge," Sansum said. "We were at today's speed of about 10Mbps about 10 to 15 years ago, so you could take that as a precedent for how long it will take for the commercial networks to catch up with us today."

Posted by Dave at July 16, 2008 11:44 AM