From http://www.aarnet.edu.au/News/2009/03/12/SKA-demo-March-2009.aspx
The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) last night hosted a landmark event to strengthen Australia’s bid for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The purpose of the event was to demonstrate the national network co-ordination possible and prove Australia’s capability to conduct transcontinental radio astronomy.
The demonstration included the high-speed transfer of data to Perth, from CSIRO and University of Tasmania radio telescopes on Australia’s east coast, via an AARNet trans-continental 10 Gbps connection. The data transfer was processed in real-time on a Perth-based computer cluster located at ICRAR’s Curtin University of Technology node, using state-of-the-art software.