6.7 Gb in less than 1 minute !

I think this news might have your interest. Interesting world record  based on Internet2, the new worldwide universities network.

Transmit 6.7 Gigabytes of data - the data equivalent of 4 hours of DVD-quality movies - across 7000 miles in less than a minute? Can do.

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is part of an international relay team that was recently awarded a certified data transfer speed record by the Internet2 consortium. 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. This transfer speed is more than 3500 times as fast as a typical home Internet broadband connection. (More information)