On December 31, 2006, the data transfer rate was set at 9.08 gigabytes per second (1.135 gigabytes per second). The details of the fact were revealed during a meeting of representatives of the consortium Internet2.
According to a group of researchers, they used modified Internet protocols and an IPv6 address space in their experiment. The distance between subscribers connected to the high-speed Internet2 network was 20 thousand miles.
Record data transfer speeds using the IPv4 address system is 8.8 gigabits per second. Recall that IPv6 was designed to increase the number of possible IP addresses, since the number of address variants in IPv4 space, subject to limitations, will soon come to an end due to the rapidly emerging new Internet sites.
Today, experts say that in the near future this record will not be broken, because, according to the rules of the high-speed Internet2 network, approximately 10% of the channel “width” should be allocated to ensure the stability of transmission and traffic recognition. The theoretical bandwidth of this network is 10 gigabits per second.
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However, according to the Associated Press, in the future, the consortium Internet2 plans to build a new network with a bandwidth of 100 gigabits per second. At this speed, the transfer of high quality film takes just a few seconds. We wait!