Everyone always said the most bandwidth available is via a truck on the road.
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Amazon Snowmobile
To be fair, I first saw it on Spiceworks, but it was only a link to the Wired article.Even with a one gigabit per-second connection such as Google Fiber, uploading 100 petabytes over the internet would take more than 28 years. At an average speed of 65 mph, on the other hand, you could drive a Snowmobile from San Francisco to New York City in about 45 hours—about 4,970 gigabits per second. That doesn’t count the time it takes to actually transfer the data onto Snowmobile–which Amazon estimates will take less than 10 days–or from the Snowmobile onto Amazon’s servers. But all told, that still makes the truck much, much faster.
I knew I missed my true calling, I should be driving everyone's data around the country faster than you could possibly download/upload it!
Hey Amazon, I can do computer networking, administration, service and drive a truck, what's an all-in-one driver/service person expect to make?
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The catch 22 here is you need to transfer 100 petabytes of data per trip, ensure the data arrives in tack, and also enable prioritization of who gets data first along the route.
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@DustinB3403 said in Everyone always said the most bandwidth available is via a truck on the road.:
The catch 22 here is you need to transfer 100 petabytes of data per trip, ensure the data arrives in tack, and also enable prioritization of who gets data first along the route.
I'm just guessing at multiplexed 40gb or 100gb connections that'll feed the storage, fast as the storage can ingest it.
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Only at 162000000 ms latency.
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@coliver said in Everyone always said the most bandwidth available is via a truck on the road.:
Only at 162000000 ms latency.
At 1PB bandwidth. Fast, large, cheap and you get to pick two.
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@travisdh1 said in Everyone always said the most bandwidth available is via a truck on the road.:
@coliver said in Everyone always said the most bandwidth available is via a truck on the road.:
Only at 162000000 ms latency.
At 1PB bandwidth. Fast, large, cheap and you get to pick two.
But Amazon's argument here is that it is literally all 3.
it's fast compared to uploading it (as it might take 14 days versus years), its cheap, cause a truck driver is cheaper than metered internet services at these scales, and its large 100 Petabytes. . .
So yeah... all 3 is the argument here.
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@DustinB3403 said in Everyone always said the most bandwidth available is via a truck on the road.:
@travisdh1 said in Everyone always said the most bandwidth available is via a truck on the road.:
@coliver said in Everyone always said the most bandwidth available is via a truck on the road.:
Only at 162000000 ms latency.
At 1PB bandwidth. Fast, large, cheap and you get to pick two.
But Amazon's argument here is that it is literally all 3.
it's fast compared to uploading it (as it might take 14 days versus years), its cheap, cause a truck driver is cheaper than metered internet services at these scales, and its large 100 Petabytes. . .
So yeah... all 3 is the argument here.
I guess fast is relative. Getting 100PB uploaded to a cloud provider will probably never be what I consider fast
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@travisdh1 said in Everyone always said the most bandwidth available is via a truck on the road.:
@DustinB3403 said in Everyone always said the most bandwidth available is via a truck on the road.:
@travisdh1 said in Everyone always said the most bandwidth available is via a truck on the road.:
@coliver said in Everyone always said the most bandwidth available is via a truck on the road.:
Only at 162000000 ms latency.
At 1PB bandwidth. Fast, large, cheap and you get to pick two.
But Amazon's argument here is that it is literally all 3.
it's fast compared to uploading it (as it might take 14 days versus years), its cheap, cause a truck driver is cheaper than metered internet services at these scales, and its large 100 Petabytes. . .
So yeah... all 3 is the argument here.
I guess fast is relative. Getting 100PB uploaded to a cloud provider will probably never be what I consider fast
Uploaded over your Internet connection, or uploaded by plugging in the data to a 18-wheeler hard drive? I mean its a time offset calculation.
Sending say 500TB over internet service to a cloud provider will take a very long time. Probably months. Whereas you could copy the data to this, and have it arrive and uploaded in a matter of weeks (14 days was the estimate from the article). That is was faster.
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I did work with a major bank that determined that human runners going down the street with backpacks full of encrypted taped was the best way to get data from one location to another.
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@scottalanmiller said in Everyone always said the most bandwidth available is via a truck on the road.:
I did work with a major bank that determined that human runners going down the street with backpacks full of encrypted taped was the best way to get data from one location to another.
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I can feel my ADSL connection melting just thinking about that much data
