p2pnet.net News:- Sprint and the Swedish National Research and Education Network (SUNET) have established a new Net speed record for sending large volumes of data from one part of the world to another.

And they used normal GigaSunet and Sprintlink production infrastructures, "shared by millions of other users of those networks," says SUNET here, going on that on April 14, 2004, SUNET moved around 840 gigs of data in less than 30 minutes, using a single TCP stream between one host at the Luleå University of Technology (LTU) in Sweden (close to the Arctic circle), and another connected to a Sprint PoP in San Jose, CA, USA.

The network path used was the GigaSunet backbone, shared with other users of the Swedish universites, and the SprintLink core network, used by all the customers of Sprintlink, says SUNET.

"The transfer was done with the ttcp program, available for many different platforms. We have chosen to use NetBSD for our tests, due to the scalability of the TCP code. ttcp is usually included in Unix and Linux systems. Windows users can download a Win32 version from pcusa."

Compared to the previous record, "we can note that we acheived this, using less powerful end hosts, with 150% longer distance, and we used only about half the MTU size (which generates heavier CPU-load on the end-hosts)," says SUNET.

Also in April, a new Internet2 Land Speed Record nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection was been set by a team from CERN in Switzerland and Caltech in the US.

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