[bruinbirdman]

"That's Gigabits per second... divide by 10 to get approximate Gigabytes per second "

Is there PC that can handle 40G/sec? A modem?

yitbos

[familyop]

"Is there PC that can handle 40G/sec? A modem?"

NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record

Researchers of the Swedish University Network ( SUNET ) have beaten the Internet2 Land Speed Record using two Dell 2650 machines with single 2GHz CPUs running NetBSD 2.0 Beta. SUNET has transferred around 840 GigaBytes of data in less than 30 minutes, using a single IPv4 TCP stream, between a host at the Luleå University of Technology and a host connected to a Sprint PoP in San Jose, CA, USA. The achieved speed was 69.073 Petabit-meters/second. According to the research team, NetBSD was chosen "due to the scalability of the TCP code" .

I guess, offhand, that was about a year ago. Version 4.0 is almost ready for release now.

Notice that it says, "around 840 GigaBytes of data in less than 30 minutes."

840 x 10 = ~8400 megabits per second.

8400 / ~ 30 minutes (little less than, according to the old news) = 280


~ 4 1/2 megabits per second

[familyop]

...sorry about the messed-up numbers and missing info. That test was much longer ago than I knew, too (early 2004).

280 / 60 seconds...

And it was a little over 5 gigabits per second—not megabits.

http://proj.sunet.se/LSR2/

It’s interesting to note that Peter Löthberg was in on that test, too, though.