CERN and Caltech Achieve 5.44 Gbps Transcontinental Data Transfer

On 01-Oct-2003, researchers from CERN and the California Institute of Technology set a new Internet2 Land Speed Record by transferring 1.1 Terabytes of data across 7,000 km in less than 30 minutes, corresponding to 38,420.54 petabit-meters per second. The average rate was 5.44 Gbps, smashing the old record of 2.38 Gbps achieved in February 2003.
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