Internet speed record broken
22 June 2004
The world record for the speed of data transfer over the Internet has been broken.
US telecoms firm Sprint says it has achieved transfer at speeds of 4.23 gigabits per second in tests with a Swedish partner.
It sent 840 gigabytes of data from a computer in California to another PC at the University of Lulea in northern Sweden in under 27 minutes.
"This result is almost three times better than the current record listed in the 2004 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records," Sprint said in a statement.
"For Internet users whose need for speed is a priority, this feat would be equal to streaming 600 full-length movies simultaneously out to movie theatres," commented Chas Cotton, Sprint's director of data systems engineering.
The claim was verified by the Internet2 consortium, sponsors of an ongoing data-transmission speed contest.
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