Internet2 Land Speed Record
in single and multiple IPv4 TCP stream

10th, Nov.2005

30,000(actually 32,372)km connection from Seattle through Tokyo to Chicago, Amsterdam, Seattle Latency 499ms RTT

Network Configuration

treceroute from x366-1 to x366-2 (Seattle - Tokyo - Chicago - Amsterdam - Seattle)

x366-1 to x366-2
C:\>tracert 192.31.116.100
Tracing route to NETPERF2X366 [192.31.116.100]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    88 ms    88 ms    88 ms  192.31.116.1
  2   253 ms   253 ms   253 ms  192.31.116.35
  3   356 ms   356 ms   356 ms  192.31.116.66
  4   500 ms   499 ms   499 ms  NETPERF2X366 [192.31.116.100]
Trace complete.

treceroute from x366-2 to x366-1 (Seattle - Amsterdam - Chicago - Tokyo - Seattle)

x366-2 to x366-1
C:\>tracert 192.31.116.4
Tracing route to NETPERF1X366 [192.31.116.4]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1   147 ms   147 ms   147 ms  192.31.116.97
  2   251 ms   251 ms   253 ms  192.31.116.65
  3   411 ms   411 ms   411 ms  192.31.116.33
  4   499 ms   499 ms   499 ms  NETPERF1X366 [192.31.116.4]
Trace complete. 

• 192.31.116.1, 192.31.116.33 foundry2.t-lex.net
• 192.31.116.35, 192.31.116.65 jgn-gs4k-chicago
• 192.31.116.66, 192.31.116.97 gs4k-sara

Internet2 TCP Single stream Land Speed Record measurement

System

• Server configuration
• Hardware:
  • IBM x366 server
    • Four Intel Xeon MP 3.6GHz clock
    • Sender:8GB memory PC3200 DDR2
    • Receiver:32GB memory PC3200 DDR2
    • 440GB disk (SAS)
    • Neterion Xframe II network interface card with PCI-X 2.0 bus connection
  • Software:
    • Windows Server2003 SP1 x64 (version 5.2, build 1830)
    • Neterion XframeII Driver (Ver. 2.0.10.0)
    • NTttcp for generating TCP packets
• Technical points
• (1) First IPv4 LSR submission with about 8Gbps bandwidth
• (2) Heavy use of WAN PHY in the network
• (3) 9014B Jumbo frame
• (4) Neterion Xframe II NIC with PCI-X V2.0
• (5) Dual Intel Xeon server for both sender and receiver (IBM x366)
• (6) NTttcp application for measurement
• Target Performance of single stream TCP on 30,000 (actually 32372) km circuit
• 7.994 Gbps (TCP payload), standard frame -> 239,820Terabit meter / second (Internet2 LSR approved Single/Multi TCP Stream record)
• Internet2 Land Speed Record Page

Results

Traffic Graphs



dump of trial

These traces are submitted traial non-drop version(first 100 packets)

• text format

Name of Institutions and persons

• The University of Tokyo
• Kei Hiraki
• Mary Inaba
• Junji Tamatsukuri
• Yutaka Sugawara
• Katsushi Inagami
• Takeshi Yoshino
• Nao Aoshima
• WIDE project
• Akira Kato
• Seiichi Yamamoto
• Yuji Sekiya
• Microsoft
• JGN2
• Asako Toyoda
• Kazuhiko Nakamura
• Katsushi Kobayashi
• Yoshitaka Hattori
• Jin Tanaka
• Yoichi Tsukioka
• Northwest Giga Pop
• Jan Eveleth
• Bill Mar
• Beth Garrison
• Fujitsu Computer Technologies LTD
• Ryutaro Kurusu
• Masakazu Sakamoto
• Yuki Furukawa
• Yukichi Ikuta
• NTT Communications
• Katsuyuki Hasebe
• Miyuki Neo
• Yu Inada
• Mitsuo Murakami
• IEEAF
• CANARIE
• Rene Hatem
• Damir Pobric
• Thomas Tam
• StarLight
• Linda Winkler
• SURFnet
• Kees Neggers
• Erik-Jan Bos
• Dennis Paus
• SARA
• Pieter de Boer
• University of Amsterdam
• Cees de Laat
• Paola Grosso
• Freek Dijkstra

Supported by

• Special Coordination Fund for Promoting Science and Technology, Ministr y of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
• Foundry Networks,
• Alaxala Networks,
• Hitachi,
• CISCO systems, Inc.
• Bussan Networks
• NetOne Systems Co., Ltd.
• Anue systems
• TOYO Corporation
• Fujitsu Panafacom LTD