Team sets I2 land speed record

released July 15, 2003

An international team set new Internet2 Land Speed Records using next-generation Internet Protocols (IPv6), achieving 983 megabits-per-second with a single IPv6 stream for more than an hour across a distance of more than 4,000 miles from Geneva, Switzerland, to Chicago. That speed is comparable to transferring one feature-length DVD-quality movie every 36 seconds, or more than 3,500 times faster than the typical home broadband connection.

The record-setting team consisted of members from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN. The new records were set through the efforts of the DataTAG project and CERN using a standard Linux TCP implementation. Major sponsorships came through the support of the European Union, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy through Caltech.

The Internet2 Land Speed Record is an open and ongoing competition. Details of the winning entries, complete rules, submission guidelines and additional details are available at http://lsr.internet2.edu/.

Caltech and CERN also hold the current Internet2 Land Speed Record in the IPv4 class, in collaboration with the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The team transferred one terabyte of data across more than 6,000 miles in less than one hour, from Sunnyvale, Calif., to Geneva, Switzerland. This corresponds to a sustained TCP rate of 2.38 gigabits per second for more than one hour.

 

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