Very high-speed Backbone Network Service

Overview
The very high speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS) was created to address some of the problems of high-density data transmission on crowded network paths by providing an avenue for high-speed computation. The vBNS can theoretically transfer data at a speed of 622 [million bits per second (bps), compared to most home modem speeds of 28,000 bps. The vBNS was later upgraded to 2.4 million bps.