Thanks to Mith from the forum for the info. Australia's first super-network has survived a punishing test, running high-end 3D and video applications without any loss of quality against a traffic load equivalent to Sydney's phone system at peak-hour.
The maiden voyage of the 10Gbps Ethernet, dubbed Super-Net, showed that a faster, more reliable internet is possible.
"We think this is the first serious use of 10Gbps Ethernet in Australia," CSIRO advanced networking R&D manager Dean Economou said. "This is the way the internet should work, but doesn't."
Super-Net is a key part of the federal Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy (CeNTIE) project, supported by the CSIRO, Nortel Networks and Agilent Technologies.
In a demonstration in Canberra last week, researchers ran a virtual environment application that allows two people in different locations to work together on the same virtual 3D object at the same time. Real-time communication was established on a studio-quality video link.
These applications - a shared hapto (touch)/acoustic/visual environment and hi-fi audio/video over IP - may eventually be used to remotely train doctors in new surgical techniques, for example. But high-end applications such as these don't fare well on today's best IP delivery systems, which send data in bursts or fragments and can face transmission delays.
News source: news.com.au
