Op Slashdot kunnen we lezen dat KPNQwest, een joint venture van KPN en Qwest, vorige week een nieuw IP (Internet Protocol) snelheidsrecord heeft gevestigd.
Dat dat niet het enige record is dat KPNQwest toen verbrak, staat in de officiele press release:
KPNQwest & Alcatel Quadruple Internet Speed Record.
- Record-breaking speed for data transfer at 40 Gbit/s per wavelength
- Four times faster than current top speed of any network in the world
- Establishes the first clear 10 Gbit/s IP link with Juniper Networks M160 Internet Backbone Router
- Four times faster than top router speed of any IP link in Europe
KPNQwest, the leading broadband Pan-European IP data communications company, announced today a double record-setting achievement in data transmission speed. The company has successfully completed the industry's first multiple-channel 40 Gbit/s (40 billion bits per second TDM multiplexed) field trial carrying the first clear 10 Gbit/s IP service.
Using the new multi-terabit optical transport platform - the Optinex? - from Alcatel, the world leader in optical networking, experts were able to combine multiple wavelengths, each at a record line speed of 40 Gbit/s and transmit them from Frankfurt to Gernsheim and back in a 160 km loop.
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