The Shadow Internet That’s 100 Times Faster Than Google Fiber

I cannot even begin to imagine what I would do with speed like this. Probably the same thing everyone else would use it for.

While the rest of us send data across the public internet, the space agency uses a shadow network called ESnet, short for Energy Science Network, a set of private pipes that has demonstrated cross-country data transfers of 91 gigabits per second–the fastest of its type ever reported.

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