Internet2 Land Speed Record History
The Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) competition for the highest-bandwidth, end-to-end networks is an open and ongoing contest.
Internet2 Land Speed Record entries are judged on a combination of how much bandwidth they used and how much distance they covered end-to-end, using standard Internet (TCP/IP) protocols. Complete rules and a summary of current records are available at the Internet2 Land Speed Record home page.
I2-LSR Timeline
- Record Set: IPv4 Multiple Stream
- I2-LSR Record: 68,431 terabit-meters per second
- Team Members
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) – CERN
- Network Distance: 10,949 kilometers
- Data transferred: 499 gigabytes (approx.)
- Time: 600 seconds (approx.)
Software notes:
- Windows Server 2003 64-Bit Edition
- NTttcp test tool (part of Windows 2000 DDK) with the Jumbo Frames (9000).
- TCP Reno
Hardware notes:
- sender and receiver: 4U Intel® Quad Itanium2 SR870BN4 Servers with Intel® E8870 chipsets
- Network interfaces: sender-s2io 10GE NIC, receiver-Intel® 10GE LR NIC
- Performance was tested with PCI clock frequencies 133-MHz in 64-bit mode
