But for NASA, it’s downright slow. 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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The internet speed of NASA is exceptionally high thanks to the kinds of data they deal with. Their networks are capable of 91 gigabits per second , as they found out from an experiment they did in 2013.14 Mar 2022
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