PROUD TO BE INDIAN

hve a good day..*That's INDIA (Really Amazing)...*
An American decided to write a book about famous churches around theWorld.
So he bought a plane ticket and took a trip to China.
On his first day he was inside a church taking photographs when heNoticed a golden telephone mounted on the wall with a sign that read'$10,000 per call'.
The American, being intrigued, asked a priest who was strolling by whatThe telephone was used for.
The priest replied that it was a direct line to heaven and that for$10,000 you could talk to God.
The American thanked the priest and went along his way.
Next stop was in Japan. There, at a very large cathedral, he saw theSame golden telephone with the same sign under it.
He wondered if this was the same kind of telephone he saw in China andHe asked a nearby nun what its purpose was.
She told him that it was a direct line to heaven and that for $10,000HeCould talk to God.
'O.K., thank you,' said the American.
He then traveled to Pakistan , Srilanka , Russia , Germany and France .
In every church he saw the same golden telephone with the same '$10,000Per call' sign under it.
The American, upon leaving Vermont decided to travel to up to India to
See if Indians had the same phone.
He arrived in India , and again, in the first church he entered, thereWas the same golden telephone, but this time the sign under it read
'OneRupee per call.'
The American was surprised so he asked the priest about the sign.'Father, I've traveled all over World and I've seen this same goldenTelephone in many churches. I'm told that it is a direct line to Heaven,But in the US the price was $10,000 per call.
'Why is it so cheap here?'
Readers, it is your turn........
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The priest smiled and answered, 'You're in India now, Son - it's a
LocalCall'.This is the only heaven on the Earth.........................................
\KEEP SMILING...
"PROUD TO BE INDIAN"

GEANT, The World's Highest Speed Computer Network, Goes Global

The world's highest-speed computer network, Europe's GEANT, is linking up with others worldwide to create a global research network, according to the European Commission.

GEANT , a computer network dedicated to research and education, already links researchers from Reykjavik to Vladivostok.

Now high-sepeed links will be established with similar research systems in Asia, Latin America and southern Africa, as well as the Balkans, the Black Sea and Mediterranean regions, with help from European funding, the EU's executive arm said.

"With GEANT's massive data processing capacity, Europe can now bring together the best minds in the world to tackle the challenges that we all face. Europe's financial investment in a high speed backbone network for research ? around €23 million per year ? benefits Europe's competitiveness, but is also boosting collaboration between researchers on a global scale," said Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media. "By investing a further ?90 million up to 2012 in the 3rd generation G?ANT, the EU is committed to staying at the forefront of the Internet's evolution, and to making scientific collaboration seamless and straightforward."

GEANT was launched in 2000 and is jointly funded by Brussels and participating nations.

The commission also announced a further 90 million euros (136 million dollars) in funding for the project up to 2012.

The network already boasts a total of 50,000 kilometres of super-fast 'dark' fibre-optic connections linked to hybrid networking technology, allowing for 320 gigabits of information to stream through per second.

It serves some 30 million users in over 3,500 universities and research centres and connects 34 national research networks.

In a statement, the commission praised the GEANT project as providing "huge technological advances for big science," including EXPReS, an EU radio astronomy project which links the world's largest radio telescopes in China, Europe, South Africa and Chile to a supercomputer in the Netherlands which produces real-time imaging.