Scientists break worldwide Internet speed record
Posted by Vaibhav Patle on April 25, 2007
Tokyo (Japan) – A group of researchers in the Internet2 consortium has set a new record for sending data through the Internet at more than nine gigabits per second. The team broke the old record of 7.67 Gbps, which was set last December. Using modified protocols, they were able to send data across a 20,000 mile path at a constant rate of 9.08 Gbps. At this speed, a high definition version of a movie could be downloaded in just a few seconds, instead of over 40 hours on a typical broadband connection.[Link]
Internet2 is a non-profit consortium made up of a few hundred universities, corporations, and government agencies. The goal is to design a faster version of the internet capable of handing extremely high bandwidth.
As of 2007, BSNL, an Indian phone company, is planning to boost speeds of their DSL offering to 2 megabits per second from 256 kbps.
On top of that, it charge people for downloads, which defeats the purpose of signing up for broadband.
Sigh.. We are far behind west or for that matter, from Southeast Asia.
As per Organization for Economic Co-Operation & Development (OECD), look at the broadband penetration in European countries. Surprisingly, USA is at number 15th. USA has to do some broadband policy changes, if it still wants to be the internet/technology king.
