With the speed of GTRN, info moves faster

In GTRN’s inauguration last month, a trans-Atlantic transfer of an old message, which was originally sent in August 1858, made its way across the ocean about 10 billion times faster than in its original trip.

The GTRN will consist of a global backbone connecting national and multi-national networks in North America and Europe and Asia. Later it is expected to be expanded into Latin America, Russia, the Middle East and Africa. The GTRN provides the connectivity and advanced Internet services needed by researchers and scientists conducting major multinational scientific collaborations in areas such as high energy physics, radio and optical astronomy, weather forecasting and climatology, biological sciences and earth sciences.

http://www.indiana.edu/~gtrn/index.html