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Lightning-quick Internet2 almost ready

By sending data using different colors of light, operators of the ultra-high-speed Internet2 network are hoping to boost capacity by as much as 80-fold to enable researchers to connect telescopes around the world and perform other bandwidth-intensive tasks.

The new network should be in place by fall 2007, said Douglas Van Houweling, Internet2’s chief executive.

He announced the plans this week as researchers set a new networking speed record — 8.8 gigabits per second, nearing the Internet2’s current theoretical limit of 10 Gbps, which is thousands of times faster than standard home broadband connections.

By Anick Jesdanun
Associated Press

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