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One use case that I'd like to see that runs contrary to the spirit of net neutrality is the ability to buy a 'data transfer' service tier. I.e. lots of data ha
by terravion 9y ago
One use case that I'd like to see that runs contrary to the spirit of net neutrality is the ability to buy a 'data transfer' service tier. I.e. lots of data has to move from somewhere to the public cloud and most telecom infrastructure sits under-utilized especially at night. I would more believe the telcos that net neutrality is innovation stifling if any of them had ever taken our money when we wanted to buy intentionally low priority service, but at huge throughput, for cheap.
Anyone know where we can buy said service?
- draugadrotten 9y ago> Anyone know where we can buy said service? That's essentially what most residential internet is all about... all the data is being moved at low priority at lowest cost and no penalties whatsoever for broken service. Business internet is different, with much different SLAs but for the most part without serious penalties. For the critical data stuff, look into banking SLAs etc where penalties are severe.
- sillysaurus3 9y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vQmTZTq7nw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vQmTZTq7nw "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes barreling down the highway at 70mph."
- Animats 9y agoHave you ever tried to read a thousand tapes? Weeks. I was once involved in a project to copy old Stanford SAIL backup tapes. They just needed people to load tapes on a drive, wait, unload, and go on to the next tape. Reading a tape took 20 minutes. Transfer time over the Internet to a file server took under a minute.
- skj 9y agoI think we can update the story to include a stack of usb-accessed petabyte drives.
- digi_owl 9y agoOr Amazon's purpose build hardware/services. https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
- thesandlord 9y agoGoogle: https://cloud.google.com/transfer-appliance/ https://cloud.google.com/transfer-appliance/ Microsoft: https://azure.microsoft.com/services/storage/databox/ https://azure.microsoft.com/services/storage/databox/
- digi_owl 9y agoInteresting how similar the Amazon and Microsoft offerings are, while Google's seems more like just another rack unit aimed at sitting at the customer for an extended period.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoI haven't, but I'd like to. Anyone who's reading a thousand tapes nowadays must be doing something interesting. :) Well, probably. There was a stack of floppy disks sitting on a shelf in an old thrift store. I couldn't help but buy it for $1. What could they contain? They're sitting on my desk right now. I still haven't bought a floppy disk reader, but I'm really curious. I assume a USB floppy disk drive + linux will be enough to dump the raw bytes, but I haven't looked into it. Spelunking around old tech is fascinating for unknown reasons.
- marak830 9y agoGood luck pulling off any usable data, I still remember going through over 100 flopies as a teenager looking for files I had backedup and seeing so many damn read errors. Although now I'm interested to know what's on those disks you have :-p
- sillysaurus3 9y agoThe six disks say: Lotus 2/22/93 Lazarus, (formatted) WP LAZ6 Backup 13 Backup 12 Backup 11 All the backup discs are scratched out with pen though. I hope they didn't wipe them!
- marak830 9y agoI wonder if lotus still works, and if those backups are sequental. Good luck getting the data!
- nitrogen 9y agoSuch a service would be entirely fine with net neutrality. What matters is that the choice lies with the customer, not the ISP.