1. 751.362Mbps over 5,626 km ~ 4e15 bit meters per second 4 Peta Bmps (“peta bumps”) Single Stream TCP/IP throughput Information Sciences Institute Microsoft QWest University of Washington Pacific Northwest Gigapop HSCC (high speed connectivity consortium) DARPA SysKonnect

2. Redmond/Seattle, WA San Francisco, CA New York Arlington, VA 5626 km 10 hops Chicago, IL

3. The Path DC -> SEA C:\tracert -d 131.107.151.194 Tracing route to 131.107.151.194 over a maximum of 30 hops 0 ------- DELL 4400 Win2K WKS Arlington Virginia, ISISysKonnect GbE 1 16 ms <10 ms <10 ms 140.173.170.65 ------- Juniper M40 GbE Arlington Virginia, ISI Interface ISIe 2 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 205.171.40.61 ------- Cisco GSR OC48 Arlington Virginia, Qwest DC Edge 3 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 205.171.24.85 ------- Cisco GSR OC48 Arlington Virginia, Qwest DC Core 4 <10 ms <10 ms 16 ms 205.171.5.233 ------- Cisco GSR OC48 New York, New York, Qwest NYC Core 5 62 ms 63 ms 62 ms 205.171.5.115 ------- Cisco GSR OC48 San Francisco, CA, Qwest SF Core 6 78 ms 78 ms 78 ms 205.171.5.108 ------- Cisco GSR OC48 Seattle, Washington, Qwest Sea Core 7 78 ms 78 ms 94 ms 205.171.26.42 ------- Juniper M40 OC48 Seattle, Washington, Qwest Sea Edge 8 78 ms 79 ms 78 ms 208.46.239.90 ------- Juniper M40 OC48 Seattle, Washington, PNW Gigapop 9 78 ms 78 ms 94 ms 198.48.91.30 ------- Cisco GSR OC48 Redmond Washington, Microsoft 10 78 ms 78 ms 94 ms 131.107.151.194 ------- Compaq SP750 Win2K WKS Redmond Washington, Microsoft SysKonnect GbE

4. The Performance: “PetaBumps” 751.362 Mbps for 299.829 seconds = (~28 GB) single-thread single-stream TCP/IP desktop-to-desktop out of the box performance* 5626 km x 751.362 Mbps = ~ 4.22e15 bit meter / second 4.22 Peta bmps *: 4470 byte MTU TcpWindowSize set to 20 MB

5. Configuration Settings Standard Windows 2000 Professional Registry settings in Sender & Receiver: Hkey_Local_Machine\system\Currentcontrolset\Services\Tcpip\Parameters TcpWindowSize = 20 MB (20971520) Tcp1323Opts = 3 MTU: 4470 bytes at all routers in path

6. Attached Description of benchmark Source code

7. Receiver Console Log Thread Realtime(s) Throughput(KB/s) Throughput(Mbit/s) ====== =========== ================ ================== 0 299.829 93920.201 751.362 Total Bytes(MEG) Realtime(s) Total Throughput(Trans/s) Total Throughput(Mbit/s) ================ =========== ========================= ======================== 28160.000000 299.829 1776.366 751.362