View Full Version : Florida LambdaRail Network.. Next generation internet...


figmentisback
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."

Source: ECT News Network, Inc. All rights reserved


Thats FAST.. imagine playing VMK on it... he he :happy:

SpinMarty
06-30-2005, 04:19 PM
A petabyte. Now that is a new one to me!

figmentisback
06-30-2005, 04:30 PM
A petabyte. Now that is a new one to me!

Dictionary:pet·a·byte
1. A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 terabytes (2 to the 50 bytes).
2. One quadrillion bytes.

Amazing how they have this already.. Wonder how long untill more buisnesseds and everyually homes get it??