Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-11 Thread Kelman, Tom
I know this isn't actually a mainframe topic, but it is computer related and kind of funny. I'm just glad I'm not a performance analyst for Telkom. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090910/od_nm/us_safrica_pigeon Tom Kelman Enterprise Capacity Planner Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 76

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-11 Thread Edward Jaffe
P S wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: And, airfare from Japan to the U.S. isn't free... ? Not trying to be confrontational, but what does that have to do with it? Cost/benefit analysis... -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Cent

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-11 Thread P S
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: > And, airfare from Japan to the U.S. isn't free... ? Not trying to be confrontational, but what does that have to do with it? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive ac

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-11 Thread P S
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Kelman, Tom wrote: > I know this isn't actually a mainframe topic, but it is computer related > and kind of funny.  I'm just glad I'm not a performance analyst for > Telkom. > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090910/od_nm/us_safrica_pigeon Cute, but not so dramatic.

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-11 Thread Edward Jaffe
P S wrote: Cute, but not so dramatic. In 2001, I was doing a gig, and one of the things they asked about was transferring a 100TB disk array from Japan to the US. They were thinking of renting a 1GB line, but that was pretty expensive. I did a quick calculation and pointed out that if they could

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-11 Thread P S
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: > Cost/benefit analysis... Ah. Well, still cheaper than a 1Gbit/sec line for 24 hours... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-11 Thread Tom Moulder
You laugh ... I am working with a company that literally did this. They shipped a very large disk array to the central computing center and placed it next to the production array; synchronously copied all the data; found a quiet point on a Sunday morning and split the link; uncabled the array

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-11 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 17:02 -0400 on 09/11/2009, P S wrote about Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Kelman, Tom wrote: I know this isn't actually a mainframe topic, but it is computer related and kind of funny.  I'm just glad I'm not a performance anal

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-11 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 14:31 -0700 on 09/11/2009, Edward Jaffe wrote about Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed: P S wrote: Cute, but not so dramatic. In 2001, I was doing a gig, and one of the things they asked about was transferring a 100TB disk array from Japan to the US. They were thinking of renting a

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-12 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:57:40 -0500, Tom Moulder wrote: >You laugh ... > >I am working with a company that literally did this. They shipped a >very large disk array to the central computing center and placed it next >to the production array; synchronously copied all the data; found a >quiet point

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-14 Thread Howard Brazee
On 11 Sep 2009 18:59:04 -0700, tom_moul...@1scom.net (Tom Moulder) wrote: >I am working with a company that literally did this. They shipped a >very large disk array to the central computing center and placed it next >to the production array; synchronously copied all the data; found a >quiet p

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 09/11/2009 at 02:00 PM, "Kelman, Tom" said: >Subject: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed Using RFC 1149? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-15 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >Using RFC 1149? Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers Above page also describes shortly what actually happened. FYI, that pigeon's name is Winston. ;-D More info: http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2009/0909091636.asp? S=Broadband&A=B

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-15 Thread Jack . Hamilton
saving them. Thank you. "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 09/14/2009 01:10 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: [IBM-MAIN] Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed In , on 09/11/2009 at

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-15 Thread Arthur Gutowski
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:57:40 -0500, Tom Moulder wrote: >You laugh ... > >I am working with a company that literally did this. They shipped a >very large disk array to the central computing center and placed it next >to the production array; synchronously copied all the data; found a >quiet poin

Re: Carrier Pigeon beats Internet Speed

2009-09-16 Thread Howard Brazee
On 15 Sep 2009 13:36:47 -0700, aguto...@ford.com (Arthur Gutowski) wrote: >On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:57:40 -0500, Tom Moulder > wrote: > >>You laugh ... >> >>I am working with a company that literally did this. They shipped a >>very large disk array to the central computing center and placed it nex