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There are other wan accelerators out there - like Riverbed. But, I think Aspera uses some specialized compression for genomics data, and genomics compression i
by sgt101 7y ago
There are other wan accelerators out there - like Riverbed.
But, I think Aspera uses some specialized compression for genomics data, and genomics compression is not easy.
My suggestion would be to talk to the telco that provides your wan. If you are using a direct internet connection my suggestion would be : don't.
- ncmncm 7y agoRiverbed always stank. Aspera never did in-flight compression when I was there. In-flight compression got even less interesting around 2010 when the long fiber links got faster than customers' (shared) storage systems. Users have good reasons to compress at rest, before starting a transfer.
- ncmncm 7y agoI want to make clear that I have no information on Riverbed's current products.
- wtracy 7y agoThe author is discussing intercontinental data transfers. Not many organizations have a WAN that can cross oceans without hitting the internet.
- moonbug 7y agoalmost all HE and research institutions participate in nrens which provide 3xacrly those peerings
- ncmncm 7y agoYes, but that typically takes government cooperation, and you still don't get better latency -- even if you have neutrinos.
- moonbug 7y agowhat?
- ncmncm 7y agoCertain labs were sending neutrinos right through the earth, gaining a measurable reduction in transit time vs great-circle overland signal propagation. (At first they thought they were gaining even more, by superluminal transit, but that turned out to illusory.) They did not put any data in the neutrino channel, to my knowledge, but in principle they could have. You might think you would need quite a deep chord to beat microwave propagation over the surface, because the dielectric coefficient of rock reduces the speed of light there. But that wouldn't affect neutrinos, which definitely go much faster through any kind of rock than light ever goes down a fiber. True fact.
- exikyut 7y agoIf there's any possible way you could share more about this... I am very very interested to learn more.
- sgt101 7y agoBear in mind that you have to put the signal in and get it out of the channel as well as transmit it. I highly doubt that neutrino signaling kit is as optimized for doing this as photonics.
- ncmncm 7y agoTo be clear, there is absolutely no practical means of high-speed data communication using neutrinos. That is not to say there will never be any.
- exikyut 7y agoAh, I see. So the labs you refer to were trying to make this work? I'm curious what sort of performance level they achieved, even if eg just multiples of single or tens of bytes/sec. Thanks for the info.
- sgt101 7y agoThere are dozens of large WAN suppliers out there. You have to buy access, but they do sell it.