From the BBC Tech News this morn­ing; Net speed record smashed.

Sci­ent­ists have set a new inter­net speed record by trans­fer­ring 6.7 giga­bytes of data across 10,978 kilo­metres (6,800 miles), from Sunnyvale in the US to Ams­ter­dam in Hol­land, in less than one minute.

Cool! I could use me some of that band­width

The motiv­a­tion for the record was the need to trans­fer and ana­lyse the vast amounts of data pro­duced by particle phys­i­cists study­ing the fun­da­mental build­ing blocks of mat­ter…
Dur­ing its research, Slac has accu­mu­lated the largest known data­base in the world, which grows at one tera­byte per day.