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SPRINT & SUNET SET INTERNET DATA SPEED RECORD.

AsiaPulse News,  October, 2004  

Tags: Internet, Sprint Communications

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- Sprint (NYSE: FON) and the Swedish National Research and Education Network (SUNET) were today officially awarded the Internet Land Speed Record from Internet2 at their fall member conference in Austin, Tex. The Sprint/SUNET engineering team used readily available hardware and software to send bulk data over the public Internet farther and faster than before, beating academic teams operating specialized private networks and topping its own current listing in the Guinness Book of World Records.

A new Internet land speed/distance record of 4.31 Gigabits/second was ...