I've been following this for a while now...but still do not understand what the end goal is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2
The speed records for data transfer are amazing...
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his time data is transfered at 9.08 gigabits per second over a distance of 30,000 km for a period of five hours.
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What I am wondering is....will this service always be restricted to Universities..the government, and such fields? Or will we see the home user have access to it?
Maybe I'm getting a bit ahead of myself though....I believe Shaw offers the 25mbps connection service, which is probably WAY more then enough for most home users. I can't even imagine what I would do with such bandwith.
But years ago...around 1999, I thought that files 3mb in size were huge, especially when they took me all night to download on a dailup connection. Now we're downloading files as big as 5-10 gigs in one day.
Thoughts?