State-backed experimental network spans 40 cities and targets AI and deterministic networking.
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(Image credit: Microsoft) Share Share by: Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google China has brought online a national experimental research network designed to support experimentation on future network designs and to improve data transmission quality, with early demonstrations centered on extreme data movement and tightly controlled traffic behavior. The China Environment for Network Innovation, or CENI, was formally switched on this week, according to Chinese state media , transferring 72TB over 1,000 kilometers.
The network’s most notable result comes from a long-distance transfer test linked to the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in Guizhou province. In that trial, researchers moved 72 terabytes of data to Hubei province in about 1.6 hours across a route of roughly 1,000 kilometers. Based on the published figures, that roughly works out to a throughput close to 100 Gbps. Chinese outlets contrasted this with conventional internet transfers, claiming the same dataset would take nearly 2 years to transfer over typical public network paths.
CENI has been built in response to the demands of data-heavy scientific facilities and distributed compute workloads. FAST alone is said to generate around 100 terabytes of data per day, volumes that strain shared, best-effort wide-area networks.
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