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Alumni in the spotlight
Faster than a speeding bullet
 Jerrod Williams (BS CS ‘00) is a programmer/network
analyst at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center at Stanford
University. He was part of an international relay team that
was recently awarded a certified data transfer speed record
by the Internet2 consortium. This group of 200 universities
is working in a worldwide partnership with industry and government
to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies,
accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.
The team transferred un-compressed data at 923 megabits
per second for 58 seconds from Sunnyvale to Amsterdam — a
distance of almost 6,800 miles, or about 1/4th of the way
around the world. Imagine transferring the data equivalent
of 4 hours of DVD-quality movies across 7000 miles in less
than a minute. This transfer speed is more than 3500 times
faster than a typical home Internet broadband connection!
Practical benefactors of such high speed data transfer
include doctors at multiple sites sharing and discussing
a patient’s cardio-angiographs to diagnose and plan
treatment, or disaster recovery experts sharing information
across the globe in near real-time to develop recovery and
relief plans.
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