SLAC scientists help set data transfer speed record

SLAC is part of an international relay team that was recently awarded a certified data transfer speed record by the Internet2 consortium. The team transferred un-compressed data at 923 megabits per second for 58 seconds from Sunnyvale to Amsterdam — a distance of almost 6,800 miles, or about a quarter of the way around the world. This transfer speed is more than 3500 times as fast as a typical home Internet broadband connection (1/2 page).