Internet2 Speed Record: Four Times As Fast

Try a sustained transfer of 101 gigabits per second between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles on Internet2. That's the speed hit by an international team lead by Caltech last week, the second year in a row the "High Energy Physics" team has won the Supercomputer Bandwidth Challenge.

The heart of the new effort is the new FAST congestion control algorithm for high performance TCP, developed by the Caltech Netlab team. The effort also involved an powerful collection of hardware, including seven 10 Gbps links to Cisco 7600 and 6500 series routers, and four dedicated wavelengths of National LambdaRail. (The Caltech press release details all the hardware used in breaking the Internet2 Speed Record.