New World Record Announced for Internet Performance – April 2004

Caltech and CERN send data at more than 6.25 Gbps across nearly 11,000 km Arlington, Va., April 20, 2004 – An international team has set a new Internet2R Land Speed Record by transferring data across nearly 11,000 kilometers at an average rate of 6.25 gigabits per second (Gbps), nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection, from Geneva, Switzerland to Los Angeles, Calif. The Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) is an open and ongoing competition for the highest-bandwidth, end-to-end networks.

The mark of 68,431 terabit-meters per second, which used the same IPv4 protocols deployed throughout the global Internet, was set by a team consisting of members from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN. The same team previously set a new mark of four Gbps over the same distance using IPv6, the next generation of Internet protocols.

“The team from Caltech and CERN have again set a new measure for Internet performance,” said Rich Carlson, Chair of the I2-LSR judging panel. “By pushing the envelope of end-to-end networking, their efforts demonstrate new possibilities for enabling research, teaching, and learning using advanced Internet technology.”

The new mark was announced today in conjunction with the Spring 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting. The most recent record was set with the support of Microsoft, S2io, Intel, Cisco Systems, HP, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the European Union, and the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California.

More information can be found at: http://ultralight.caltech.edu/lsr/

Details of the winning entries, complete rules, submission guidelines and additional details are available at: http://lsr.internet2.edu/