SLAC, CalTech and LANL joined forces at the SuperComputing 2003
Bandwidth Challenge in Phoenix, Arizona to capture the Sustained Bandwidth
Award for the most data transferred. The team demonstrated a peak data
transfer rate of 23.2 gigabits per second, nearly 400,000 times faster
than a typical 56Kbits per second Internet connection.
Data was transferred from the challenge site in Phoenix to the
SLAC/Stanford Point of Presence at the Palo Alto Internet Exchange and to
other sites in four countries spanning three continents. The team
harnessed a new ability to efficiently use both dedicated and shared
Internet backbones.
