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But why?

• visarga 5y ago
  To actually hear your data buzzing around?
• topspin 5y ago
  Use cases for this are easy to imagine. For example; data collected by instruments in remote locations that do not have high capacity or cost effective network connections. When collection has to be done by a human it could require days or weeks, perhaps more. Whereas an automated system could perform the task more frequently.
• ncc-erik 5y ago
  I took a networks class during college, and there was a homework question from the textbook about a scenario like this. It had you compare transferring a large amount of data over the Internet versus loading it onto a disk and driving a physical distance to load it onto the other computer. The answer depended on the available bandwidth against the distance to drive. And for other practical applications related to this idea: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
• ketanmaheshwari 5y ago
  A few reasons: -- Cost: Drones are getting faster, accurate, reliable and cheap while storage devices are getting lighter and denser. If a protocol is in place, vast amount of data could be moved relatively cheaper at a faster rate. -- Auxiliary Medium: If a campus network is down due to security threats or assessment or some other reason, this protocol may be used to pass critical data around. -- Remote, inaccessible (edge) locations: Places where conventional network is difficult to setup due to temporal nature or hazardous conditions etc.
• pfarrell 5y ago
  I'll put this old witticism forward... Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives.
  • jll29 5y ago
    That's what the guys from the Internet Archive and CiteSeer also tend to say.