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06-30-2005, 04:02 PM
"The Florida LambdaRail Network -- the next-generation Internet with 100 times the capacity of the previous system -- has gone live at 10 Florida universities.
""We're talking about moving petabytes of data, where a petabyte is a million gigabytes," University of Florida physicist Professor Paul Avery said. "With the old system, it would have taken us months to download data that will now require only a few days.""
A dozen other U.S. consortiums also worked on installing LambdaRail connections, but Florida's is unique in that members have already paid for it, Hoit said."
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Thats FAST.. imagine playing VMK on it... he he :happy:
""We're talking about moving petabytes of data, where a petabyte is a million gigabytes," University of Florida physicist Professor Paul Avery said. "With the old system, it would have taken us months to download data that will now require only a few days.""
A dozen other U.S. consortiums also worked on installing LambdaRail connections, but Florida's is unique in that members have already paid for it, Hoit said."
Source: ECT News Network, Inc. All rights reserved
Thats FAST.. imagine playing VMK on it... he he :happy: