LWN: Web-100: Getting that 100%

“A new initiative under funding consideration by the U.S.
National Science Foundation has the potential to greatly increase
real effective bandwidth users get out of the Internet – and the
work will be done using Linux. The benefits would be many: better
network usage, Linux at the forefront of Internet research, and
perhaps even federal funding paying for Linux kernel hackers to
improve the system.”

“The National Science Foundation has spent more than $50 million
dollars on the networking infrastructure to make gigabit networking
available to scientists throughout the United States to facilitate
their research. Unfortunately, as many of the rest of you may have
discovered, having a fast and large bandwidth network connection
doesn’t mean that any one transfer will actually get 100% of that
bandwidth. In fact, transfer rates generally run 10% or less of a
really large pipe, even when the pipe is essentially unused.”

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