College of the Desert in Palm Desert, CA just
got the hook up to a 1 Gbps internet link, which means speeds capable of downloading a movie in about a second. The school had to lay nearly 400 miles of fiber-optic cable to achieve that kind of killer bandwidth speed. The upgrade was much needed as the school was having to ration out bandwidth, which sounds fairly normal to me for many schools. I don't know what school wouldn't love this kind of backbone to the Internet. College of the Desert is the third community college campus that has received this type of speed recently, which has made things easier for professors and students. Video-conferencing and other applications, such as campus-wide high-speed wifi or easy podcasting tools. Imagine how fast you could download every piece of software we have ever featured on Download Squad. That's fast.
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Subscribe to commentsdiploAug 29th 2006 11:48AM
1Gbps=85,3 MBps, so a 700 MB movie would be downloaded in 8 seconds, not one.
blablaAug 29th 2006 11:52AM
Well, I don't know how many students that college has, but 1 GB/sec isn't so very fast... At the University of Heidelberg we have 2 GB/sec since april 2001 (and maybe more today, that's the most current spec I found).
QwfwqAug 29th 2006 12:32PM
Downloading a movie over a 1 Gigabit (Gb/s not GB/s) in just one second? Hardly, perhaps a short clip or a very short movie. And if I'm not confused 1 Gb ethernet is not exactly cutting edge and doesn't seem to be exactly worthy of news.
AlexAug 29th 2006 12:32PM
Isn't 1 Gbps != 1 GBps?
Jay SavageAug 29th 2006 1:57PM
Gigabit ethernet isn't news. Gigbit internet is. We're talking 1000 T1 lines here, close to 100 OC3. That's huge. uplinks that approach ethernet speeds are virtually unheard of, except for major corporations. Most schools are lucky if they have 10Mb connections between buildings, and a couple of T1 lines connectiong them to the backbone. Even my big city U doesn't come close to that. If you put all our uplinks together, you might get 10Mb/s. On a good day. Which is fine, because the network moves at the speed of the slowest router and most places have some old hardware in the pipe somewhere.
blablaAug 29th 2006 2:32PM
@Alex: Of course you're right, I should have written Gb/sec or better Gbit/sec to make it clear.
DavidAug 30th 2006 2:31PM
#4: Most collgege / university schools in the USA are probabbly using fiber between buildings. My local college (which is really a technical school that just got or is in the process of getting accredited as a college) had 100Mbit single mode loop between 4 buildings on-campus, T1 links to off-site learning centers (3 I believe), and a T3 to the Internet. Additionally they had a PRI for teachers / distance learning dial-in. Larger schools such as the major technical universities will likely be using 10GE over fiber these days between buildings, and maybe even several 10GE fiber paths trunked. The nice thing about fiber is you can usually run 10GE over the same stuff you used to run 100Mbit FDDI over.