10 GigE Trans European Network Announced

released October 07, 2003

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the University of Amsterdam announced recently that they have succeeded in building and testing a Trans European 10 Gbps Ethernet (10 GigE) network. Crossing four countries and spanning 1,700 km, the network uses new technology capable of transmitting the equivalent of 1.5 complete data CDs every second.

The network consists of a SURFnet GigE circuit (called a lambda) between Amsterdam and Geneva, delivered by Global Crossing. This infrastructure will aid the high-speed distribution of experimental data from CERN's new Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator scheduled to come into operation in 2007, to researchers in remote institutes.

 

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