The gamers won't like the latency at all... On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
> Time to invest in RR stock. Screw fiber. > > *From:* Forrest Christian (List Account) > *Sent:* Monday, April 17, 2017 10:33 AM > *To:* af > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] bulk data transfer > > Well, assuming that the rail was moving at a similar speed to the trucks - > say 60MPH, And the rail cars were ~60 feet in length, and had the same > volume as the 53 foot truck. > > 60MPH = 316,800 FPH / 60 Feet = 5280 Railcars per hour, 88 railcars per > minute, 1.46666 rail cars per second. > > Once the first one arrived, you'd have a continous feed of 26857.6Pbit/S > > Get to work on the automatic tape transcription device. You only need to > write ~557,136 tapes per second, and don't forget loading them on the > train... > > > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > >> No, what would it be if you had continuous railcar transport??? We could >> eliminate all the fiber with railroads! >> >> *From:* Forrest Christian (List Account) >> *Sent:* Monday, April 17, 2017 10:15 AM >> *To:* af >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] bulk data transfer >> >> Chicago to LA is 30 hours by truck. >> >> Typical 53 foot trailer is 3816 cubic feet. >> >> A LTO-7 tape can hold 6TB >> The volume of a LTO-7 tape is just under 0.01 cubic foot >> (0.00839973....) We'll use 0.01 cubic foot. >> >> A 53 foot trailer packed completely full can hold 381600 Tapes X 6TB = >> 2,289,600TB, or 2289 PB. >> >> 2,289,600TB/30hours = 76320TB/hr. >> or >> 1272TB/min >> or >> 21.2TB/sec. >> or >> 169.6Tbit/second. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Robert Andrews <i...@avantwireless.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I can't remember which but there was a nanog presentation a few years >>> ago about max bandwidth and the top of the chart was still listed as a 747 >>> cargo full of optical media.. Now as far as getting that data on and off >>> the media.... >>> >>> On 04/17/2017 07:36 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: >>> >>>> For the seed you need to understand this quote: >>>> >>>> "/Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes >>>> hurtling down the highway/." —Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1989). Computer >>>> Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. p. 57. ISBN 0-13-166836-6. >>>> >>>> I'd highly recommend you think about how to move that seed via Fedex or >>>> UPS. You're already going to be storing the data somewhere, if >>>> possible, take whatever it is your storing it on (or backing it up on) >>>> to the origin location and copy it to it.... *then* ship it to and >>>> install it in your datacenter. It is likely that the cost of doing >>>> this will actually be less than the cost of buying a circuit which will >>>> do this in a reasonable amount of time, especially if you are buying a >>>> piece of hardware to store this data (likely). >>>> >>>> For the updates, 4pb per year is just over 1Mb/s if I did the math >>>> correctly.... This is in the realm of normal internet, assuming the >>>> data grows gradually throughout a year. >>>> >>>> I'll let others point you toward a 10Gig wave if you'd rather not use >>>> the "move media" approach. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Zach Underwood <zunder1...@gmail.com >>>> <mailto:zunder1...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I work for a medical data company and we have a possible project >>>> where will be getting data from a human genome company. What would >>>> be a option for move the data between our datacenter and there >>>> datacenter? We are in the southeast and they are in the midwest. The >>>> data amount would be a seed of 5pb and growth of 4pb per year. The >>>> networking on our side would be 100gbit LAN. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Zach Underwood (RHCE,RHCSA,RHCT,UACA) >>>> My website <http://zachunderwood.me> >>>> advance-networking.com <http://advance-networking.com> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> *Forrest Christian* /CEO//, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc./ >>>> Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 >>>> forre...@imach.com >>>> <mailto:forre...@imach.com> | http://www.packetflux.com >>>> <http://www.packetflux.com/> >>>> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> <http://facebook.com/packetflu >>>> x> <http://twitter.com/@packetflux> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> >> -- >> *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.* >> Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 >> forre...@imach.com | http://www.packetflux.com >> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> >> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> <http://twitter.com/@packetflux> >> >> > > > -- > *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.* > Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 > forre...@imach.com | http://www.packetflux.com > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> > <http://twitter.com/@packetflux> > >
