The guys at D-Link are some of the best when it comes to home user networking and their new dual band router is not going to stand aside. D-Link DIR-825 is the name and apart from the great looks (beautiful in white - or is it just the picture?) it features dual-band capabilities to pump out 2.4GHz and 5Ghz signals simultaneously.

But that’s not all, because it has a few more special features. First one is that it uses D-Link’s trademark SharePort technology that allows you to connect a printer or a storage device via USB and access them all through the network. Second of all D-Link says their dual band router is highly optimized for HD video streaming.

That baby is going to cost you $200 if you want to buy it, however if you already own a DIR-628, DIR-655, DIR-855, or DGL-4500 you can get the Share-Port technology with a simple firmware update.

via Crave

I wasn’t familiar until today of what Internet2 Network is all about, but today I read some articles about the extreme speeds they reached in their private fiber optic network. In April they managed to send data at 7.67GBps by using standard communication protocols and then, 24 hours later, beat that by using IPv6 protocols to achieve 9.08Gbps.

News I’ve read today mentioned that Internet2 is prepared and will be offering 100Gbps capacities, through a new technology called Dynamic Circuit Network. Apparently, with Internet2 completed, researchers and universities will be able to share enormous amounts of data without using www, simply setting up dedicated 10Gbps point-to-point links on the fly.

This service will be launched, officially, in January 2008, but Dr. Carl Lundstedt, of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln already showed a demo of it, by transferring one-third of a terabyte of data in just five minutes.