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

[Mark]

"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-truck-hauling-huge-hard-drive/

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Mark Kelly

mark at vceit.com
http://vceit.com
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