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Data Flood Feeds Need for Speed (Wired)

Wired covers an international team of physicists who set a world record for the amount and speed of data transferred over a broadband network. "Data was transmitted by packets called jumbo frames, which are 9,000 bytes -- six times as big as the packets normally sent over the Internet. The team used PCs running Debian GNU/Linux in Amsterdam and RedHat Linux in Sunnyvale."
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