New Internet speed record set by European and U.S. labs

Two major scientific research centers said today that they had set a world speed record for sending data across the Internet, equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD film in 7 seconds…it is 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection and is also equivalent to transferring a 60-minute compact disc within 1 second — an operation that takes around 8 minutes on standard broadband.

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