Greased lightning.A team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. has once again broken the Interact speed record, transferring data nearly 10.000 times faster than commercial broadband networks  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. . The feat was announced at the Spring 2004 Internet2 meeting in Arlington, Va. The team beat its previous record, set in November, by transmitting data from Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. to Geneva--about 6,800 miles--at an average speed of 6.25 gigabits per second, fast enough to download a DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. from halfway around the world in five seconds. "This is certainly an important milestone," said Harvey Newman, the Caltech physics professor who leads the team. "The whole point is to take this record and put it into production use." |
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