GENEVA - Researchers have more than doubled the world speed record for internet data transfer.
Scientists at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Switzerland sent the equivalent of a full-length DVD movie in about seven seconds. Colleagues at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received the data.
To accomplish the feat, the team paid for a special transatlantic fibre optic link with a capacity of 10 Gbps. Routers at both ends allowed the data to be sent more reliably.
The average transfer rate was 5.44 gigabits per second (Gbps), which broke the previous record of 2.38 Gbps – more than 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection.
