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I wonder what the record for "in-flight" data would be, and who would hold it. Seems like earth satellites might have huge pipes, but the data arrives too quic
by qup 3y ago
I wonder what the record for "in-flight" data would be, and who would hold it.
Seems like earth satellites might have huge pipes, but the data arrives too quickly to build up.
Maybe 94GB would do it.
- lmm 3y agoWhat do you consider "in flight"? There's an old joke from Tanenbaum: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." And while it was very much not a high-capacity technique, you might find the mercury delay-line memory used by early computers interesting if you haven't heard of it before.
- 8organicbits 3y agoA concrete example is AWS Snowmobile which claims up to 100PB in transit via a shipping container. https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
- c_o_n_v_e_x 3y agoWhoa! Delay line is awesome, never heard of it before. Vaguely reminds me of the spool with 38 miles of fiber used to thwart high frequency traders. https://www.iexexchange.io/technology https://www.iexexchange.io/technology