Grid vs Web

See Techtree article.
"The grid boasts speeds nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical Broadband connection... capable of sending the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds."
"...the network, in effect a parallel Internet, is now built, using fibre optic cables that run from Cern (near Geneva) to 11 centres in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe, and around the world. From each center, further connections radiate out to a host of other research institutions that use existing high-speed academic networks. Which means Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system so that any student or academic will theoretically be able to hook up to the grid rather than the Internet from this autumn. What does the grid have that Internet doesn't? While the Internet has been built by linking together a mesh of cables and routing equipment most of which lacks the capacity for high-speed data transmission, the grid, by contrast has been built with dedicated fibre optic cables and modern routing centres, ensuring there are no outdated components that manage to slow down the speed of data transmission."