On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:13:29 +1000, James Gray wrote:

> But on a side note, we managed to transmit about 512GB of data from Sydney 
> to our data centre in Boston in about 3 days on one occasion (that's about 
> 16.67Mbps sustained for 3 days)....amazing what you can do with an express 
> courier and a pile of DLT's!

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A678576
http://www.bpfh.net/sysadmin/never-underestimate-bandwidth.html


Cheers,

John
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