{"id":12459,"date":"2014-10-10T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12459"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:04:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:04:37","slug":"the-shadow-internet-thats-100-times-faster-than-google-fiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/the-shadow-internet-thats-100-times-faster-than-google-fiber","title":{"rendered":"The Shadow Internet That\u2019s 100 Times Faster Than Google Fiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/kfinley\/\" rel=\"author\">Klint Finley<\/a> \u2014 Wired<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>When Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette said the tech giant might bring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredenterprise\/2014\/02\/100-gigabits\/\">10 gigabits per second internet connections<\/a> to American homes, it seemed like science fiction. That\u2019s about 1,000 times faster than today\u2019s home connections. But for NASA, it\u2019s downright slow.<\/p>\n<p>While the rest of us send data across the public internet, the space agency uses a shadow network called <a>ESnet<\/a>, short for Energy Science Network, a set of private pipes that has demonstrated cross-country data transfers of <em>91 gigabits per second<\/em>\u2013the fastest of its type ever reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/06\/esnet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Klint Finley \u2014 Wired When Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette said the tech giant might bring 10 gigabits per second internet connections to American homes, it seemed like science fiction. That\u2019s about 1,000 times faster than today\u2019s home connections. But for NASA, it\u2019s downright slow. While the rest of us send data across [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64893,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions\/64893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}