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Researchers are pushing the envelope when it comes to transmitting big chunks of data over Ethernet across ultralong distances.
Earlier this week, a group of engineers based in Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States announced that they had completed the world's longest native 10-Gigabit Ethernet circuit.
Using a 10-Gigabit Ethernet standard adopted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the group transmitted data from the Japanese Data Reservoir project in Tokyo to CERN, a research facility in Geneva that focuses on high-energy particle physics. The length of the data path spanned 11,495 miles and 17 time zones.
The 10-Gigabit Ethernet link connected computers in Tokyo and Geneva as if they were a part of the same local area network. Researchers used optical and Ethernet switching equipment from Cisco Systems, Foundry Networks and Nortel Networks.
 News source: CNET Communications News
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