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Wednesday, 31 July 2013

The Days Of Gigabyte Is Over

GÉANT has been upgraded to a maximum capacity of two terabits per second, with individual researchers and scientists able to enjoy connections of up to 100 gigabits per second.         European scientists are pumping out an ever-increasing amount of data – just look at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider experiments for example – so here’s some welcome news for them: GÉANT, Europe’s research data backbone, has just completed a two terabits-per-second (2Tbps) upgrade.         That’s a whopping amount of capacity for the network, which connects Europe’s national research and education networks (NRENs)...