[117384] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Kell)
Fri Sep 11 09:37:50 2009
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:36:34 -0400
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
To: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AAA1BAB.5000707@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
William Allen Simpson wrote:
>
> http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm?ad=1
>
>
> Update needed for RFC 1149 (1 April 1990),
> A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
Truly practical with today's storage media... if the Wiki story is
correct, it was a 4Gb memory stick
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet under "Usage Examples"). There
was the old "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full
of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S." but then a
pigeon would have trouble hauling 9-track tapes :-)
Jeff
