BF2S Forums The Grid' Could Soon Make the Internet Obsolete

sexecuti0ner wrote:

omg serch noob

Last edited by ReDevilJR (2008-04-07 17:32:21)

Bell wrote:

mikkel wrote:

And I'll say again that this is horrible journalism.

Is it really that surprising that you can throw a lot of money at something and make it good? It's like saying that because Lamborghinis are fast and get you from point A to point B faster than you could in a normal car, Lamborghinis could "soon make regular cars obsolete". Ridiculous.

Yeah but lambo's cant get you there cheaper, which is half the story here.

Glasgow uni ahahahaha fantastic.

Martyn

ReDevilJR wrote:

The power of the grid will become apparent this summer after what scientists at Cern have termed their “red button” day - the switching-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)....

mikkel wrote:

Bell wrote:

mikkel wrote:

How do you propose that this would be cheaper than the Internet?

Just on the face value of

''offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call''

Martyn

So you think it costs money to transmit individual bits across a network medium? There's no cost to network transmission. The only cost is the cost that makes the business case for operating networks, and I can assure you that they haven't found a way to make that disappear.

These guys haven't magically found a way to make things cheaper for everyone. They just have huge volumes of data, and setting up a closed off network with very likely exactly the same sort of networking hardware that you'd find in any equally funded Internet network of a similar size is apparently a cheaper solution for them than buying transit traffic or leasing lines to connect each of their sites.

Bell wrote:

mikkel wrote:

Bell wrote:

Just on the face value of

''offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call''

Martyn

So you think it costs money to transmit individual bits across a network medium? There's no cost to network transmission. The only cost is the cost that makes the business case for operating networks, and I can assure you that they haven't found a way to make that disappear.

These guys haven't magically found a way to make things cheaper for everyone. They just have huge volumes of data, and setting up a closed off network with very likely exactly the same sort of networking hardware that you'd find in any equally funded Internet network of a similar size is apparently a cheaper solution for them than buying transit traffic or leasing lines to connect each of their sites.

I never stated that, my point was being able to transfer large volumes of data at a much great speed (supposedly), between points would work out cheaper for an organisation in terms of the hold haddiage ''time equals money''.  Using the quote of ''offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call'' was purely to illustrate that point.  I never stated using this would be cheaper for you and me to game on or that transfering data cost money per byte.

Martyn

CrazeD wrote:

mikkel wrote:

Bell wrote:

I never stated that, my point was being able to transfer large volumes of data at a much great speed (supposedly), between points would work out cheaper for an organisation in terms of the hold haddiage ''time equals money''.  Using the quote of ''offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call'' was purely to illustrate that point.  I never stated using this would be cheaper for you and me to game on or that transfering data cost money per byte.

Martyn

You can already transfer large volumes of data across the Internet at immense rates of throughput. This sort of network requires a big investment, and a good number of very large companies already run networks like these. There are no technological advances involved in this, no great new idea. Technologically, this is exactly the same as the Internet, it's just an internal network built with the same components. This isn't cheaper as a replacement for the current Internet infrastructure. At all.

I'm having difficulty finding basis for any of the claims stated. Mainly because they're absolutely stupid.

So, your internet can do this:

At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.

Fascinating.

Last edited by mikkel (2008-04-08 05:22:58)

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

mikkel wrote:

Yes. It can.

so show your 10,000 times faster connection than the rest of the world has or stop talking bs...

well, at least I would love to have 10,000 faster connection... feel free to use your current one when we rest have such leet thing.

edit: technology innovations ftw... otherwise I wouldn't be here typing this with modern pc...

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

mikkel wrote:

Yes. It can.

so show your 10,000 times faster connection than the rest of the world has or stop talking bs...

well, at least I would love to have 10,000 faster connection... feel free to use your current one when we rest have such leet thing.

edit: technology innovations ftw... otherwise I wouldn't be here typing this with modern pc...

Last edited by mikkel (2008-04-08 05:50:09)

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

but if I get cheap super fast network connection thanks to this I'm all in.edit: some ppl don't have those 100MB connection meh... mine is only 1MB...

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

mikkel wrote:

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

but if I get cheap super fast network connection thanks to this I'm all in.edit: some ppl don't have those 100MB connection meh... mine is only 1MB...

How would you get that for cheap? How would you even convince anyone to lay fibre to your home? How do you think the network would perform when congested with hundreds of millions of households? I'll give you a hint on that last one. The Internet.

LOL I think it would beat my current conenction hands down, don't you think?.... and I'll move to a big city soon so yeah. I expect to have fast connections around.

edit: and wtf is this projects goal then if not make fast connections available to "main steam"?