Adelaide, the Australian home of Star Wars, Halliburton, Global Hawk and the Joint Strike Fighter Project, has begun building a global-standard data transfer system that will allow local activities to be co-ordinated internationally.
Today's Adelaide Advertiser announces the commencement and construction of a major fibreoptic network, connencting defence, science and educational facilities at speeds enabling synchronisation with global projects.
SABRENet will cut the time to transfer a terabyte of data to just 17 minutes, compared with about three months using business broadband.
A terabyte is 1 trillion bytes.
It is not known whether the U.S. Surveillance base at Pine Gap will be connected to the network.Until now such large datasets, saved to portable hard disks, have been transported by plane or taxi between research institutions here and overseas.
The new network will enable supercomputer real-time simulations, multi-screen, high-definition video conferencing, redundant storage and disaster recovery of massive amounts of data, and will allow South Australian researchers to participate in bandwidth-enabled experiments around the globe.
The project is the result of almost three years of collaboration between the University of Adelaide, the University of South Australia, Flinders University, the State Government and the Defence, Science and Technology Organisation.
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