Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...

[Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:43:28PM -0500, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> More detailed technical information on the periodic I2 Land Speed
> Record contest can be found at http://lsr.internet2.edu/
>
> The answer to "what's good about this" is left as an exercise to the reader.

This might have something to do with it:

Contest Rules:

1. A minimum of 100 megabytes must be transferred a minimum terrestrial
distance of 100 kilometers with a minimum of two router hops in each
direction between the source node and the destination node across one or
more operational and production-oriented high-performance research and
education networks. Examples of such networks are Abilene, ESnet, CA*net3,
NREN and GEANT.

Production commercial networks need not apply, 'lest someone realize that 
they blow away these speed records on a regular basis.

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