[117385] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Fri Sep 11 10:01:25 2009
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:00:34 -0700
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
To: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4AAA5262.1090806@utc.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 09/11/2009 06:36 AM, Jeff Kell wrote:
> 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 :-)
Heck, your average sheet of paper with your average laser printer is
about 5Mb. And that's random access, not some crufty sequential seeking
tape :)
Mike
