Email from Richard Carlson, March 27, 2003.


Dear Sylvain;

It is with great pleasure that I write to inform you that your team has 
successfully set a new Internet2 Land Speed Record for the IPv4 Single and 
Mutli-stream categories.  Greg Wood from Internet2 will be in contact with 
you shortly to arrange the press release details.  Congratulations on this 
achievement!

The judging committee would like to make the following additional comments.

- The records were set using a standard Linux TCP implementation.  This 
highlights the high-speed performance potential of TCP and shows what is 
possible over todays high-performance networks.

- The records were set using new 10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC's in the end 
hosts.  This shows that applications and users will be able to take 
advantage of the continuing advances in computing and communications 
technology.

  - The throughput bottleneck was the transatlantic OC-48 link.  This 
highlights that applications and users will be able to effectively use the 
high-speed optical links that were deployed in the past decade.

- The record was set by streaming data for over 1 hour.  This shows  that 
real science data can be transported around the globe in a timely manner.

- An official awards ceremony will be planned for the spring Internet2 
membership meeting at the plenary.  We would like your team to be present 
(in person or via video teleconference link) to accept this award.  Please 
work with Greg on the details.

Once again, congratulations on setting these new IPv4 records.

Regards;
Rich Carlson
Judging committee chair



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Richard A. Carlson                              e-mail: RACarlson@anl.gov
Network Research Section                        phone:  (630) 252-7289
Argonne National Laboratory                     fax:    (630) 252-4021
9700 Cass Ave. S.
Argonne,  IL 60439