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Totally not possible. 1.2kbps * 10M devices is 12Gbps, or greater than the bandwidth of a STM-64 link. Not practical to either receive or store, even for Amaz
by ThrowawayR2 10y ago
Totally not possible. 1.2kbps * 10M devices is 12Gbps, or greater than the bandwidth of a STM-64 link. Not practical to either receive or store, even for Amazon, and certainly bandwidth consumption on that scale would be extremely noticeable.
- kbenson 10y agoI'm not sure why you would assume one of the largest computational and datacenter service providers in the world with many datacenters in many regions would require all input to be over a single connection to a single location, and even if it was, why it wouldn't come across the many, many peering agreements they have. There are many reasons why it doesn't make sense for them to do this, but this isn't one of them. Edit: To clarify, and put this in perspective, 12 Gbps is 1.5 GB per second, which is less than 127 terabytes a day. Amazon, through AWS in multiple regions, is entirely capable of adding 127 terabytes of storage a day, and already transfers MUCH more than 12 Gbps. This is not impossible, just very improbable.