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DOE’s
ESnet Leaps Ahead by Two Generations, Upgrades Backbone to 10 Gbps
The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the high-performance network funded by DOE’s Office of Science, has just completed an upgrade to 2.5 gigabits (billions of bits or Gbps) per second and 10 Gbps in the highest-speed portion of the network. Typically, a new generation of data communications bandwidth consists of a fourfold increase in performance. ESnet’s new 10 Gbps circuits represent an increase of 16 times existing performance levels, representing a jump of two typical generations of bandwidth upgrades. Operated by Berkeley Lab’s Information Technologies and Services
Division, ESnet is a nationwide high-performance network supporting scientific
research, connecting more than 35 major DOE institutions to each other
and to the global Internet. This upgrade will contribute to the acceleration
of basic scientific research sponsored by the DOE Office of Science. Read
the news
release.
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