Of interest. Yes, it was "lab" conditions, but on a pretty good-sized lab bench. But hasn't someone recently mentioned a demo of 40Gbps through Lambda Rail?
Researchers Set Record For Network Data Transfers A team of university computer scientists, network engineers, and physicists from the *California Institute of Technology* <http://www.caltech.edu/> and the *University of Michigan* <http://www.umich.edu/>, with partners at the *University of Florida* <http://www.ufl.edu/> and *Vanderbilt*<http://www.vanderbilt.edu/>, set records for data transfer speeds during a conference "bandwidth challenge" in Tampa, Fla. The team achieved a peak throughput of 17.77 gigabits per second (Gbps) between clusters of servers on the show floor of the SuperComputing 2006<http://sc06.supercomputing.org/>conference in Tampa and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Following rules set for the challenge, the researchers used a single 10-Gbps link provided by National Lambda Rail <http://www.nlr.net/> that carried data in both directions. One of the key advances in the demo was Fast Data Transport (FDT), a Java application developed by Iosif Legrand of Caltech, that runs on all major platforms and achieves stable disk reads-and-writes and smooth data flow across a long-range network. FDT streams a large set of files across an open TCP socket, so that a typically large data set composed of thousands of files can be sent or received at full speed without the network transfer restarting between files... For more information, click here<http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/news/story.cfm?ID=25> . -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ==========================================
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