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

[ken price]

Data by pigeon was tested in Australia by Hungry Beast, with more than a
little humour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci2bFFGM8T8

"Hungry Beast decided to test Australia's internet coverage after the PM
suggested that the opposition's policy on the national broadband network is
akin to having Australians communicate by carrier pigeon.

Marc would try to send data over the net, Dan would drive it there himself,
and Chris... well Chris had a pigeon by the name of Margaret in his corner."

kp


On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 11:11 AM, 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
>>
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