Napiers on the EASTMAN network which is a region connected to the JANET backbone.
It's all fibre rings so not only is it really fast but it's also reliable (something Orange should learn the meaning of).
The team, which included folks from AMD, Cisco, Microsoft Research, Newisys, and S2io, transferred 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes. It did so at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second between the CERN facility in Geneva, Switzerland, and Caltech in Pasadena, Calif., a distance of more than 15,766 kilometers, or approximately 9,800 miles.
Not anytime soon, if ever. I2 was developed for the academic and research community. AFAIK there's no plans to make it comercial and anyway there's already been some plans to have a major overhaul of the "normal" interent to improve and fix it's problems.
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