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IT Management (09/02/04); Kuchinskas, Susan

A new land-speed record for the Internet2 academic network was set by researchers at the California Institute of Technology and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Sept. 2 when 859 GB of data was successfully routed between Geneva and Pasadena at a distance of roughly 9,800 miles in less than 17 minutes. The experiment achieved a data transfer rate of 6.63 Gbps.

The breakthrough is part of an initiative to transfer vast data volumes by 2007, when CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) becomes operational and starts churning out approximately 15 petabytes of data annually. The test is one stage in an ongoing program to lay the groundwork for next-generation, data-intensive grids by building high-speed global networks.

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