[Informatics] Amazon Snowmobile - what exactly is the bandwidth of a truck?

[Mark]

Hi data-movers.

It's good to hear some *rational* and *sensible* design ideas being
proposed for mass-data movement.

However, all right-thinking people know that African Swallows
<http://legacy.python.org/search/hypermail/python-1994q2/0003.html> are
better than pigeons in terms of air-speed velocity.

This technique would serve for light-weight SD cards, but for large NAS
units, you'd obviously have to use use two African swallows together,
carrying the NAS using a standard creeper under the dorsal guiding feathers.

I'm looking forward to next year's SD exam which might ask students to
calculate how long it would take a team of eight African Swallows beating
their wings 43 times every second to carry 100 Petabytes of data 500 km.

Regards,
Mark


On 5 December 2016 at 11:11, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Mark and Adric
>
> Reminds me of the "IP over Avian Carriers" proposal that was proposed for
> consideration by the BBN Labs Network Working group.
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149  This has even more potential for
> expansion than your snowmobile proposal because of the extra bandwidth
> gained by vertically stacking pigeons in the 3D cloud space. With capacity
> is limited by avian leg length, Australian Internet Pigeon Carriers could
> consider consider running with a higher capacity line of Ether Memory Units
> (EMU's).
>
> On 4 December 2016 at 13:37, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
>
>> "AMAZON HAS A new service that makes Google Fiber seem slow. And it rides
>> on 18 wheels...
>>
>> Even with a one gigabit per-second connection such as Google Fiber,
>> uploading 100 petabytes over the internet would take more than 28 years. At
>> an average speed of 65 mph, on the other hand, you could drive a Snowmobile
>> [truck] from San Francisco to New York City in about 45 hours — about 4,970
>> gigabits per second."
>>
>> Read more
>>
>> https://www.wired.com/2016/12/amazons-snowmobile-actually-tr
>> uck-hauling-huge-hard-drive/
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mark Kelly
>>
>> mark at vceit.com
>> http://vceit.com
>>
>>
>
> --
> --
> *Roland Gesthuizen*
> http://about.me/rgesthuizen
>
> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
> change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
> Mead
>


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