[56502] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Mon Mar 10 10:11:02 2003
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:10:24 -0500
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
To: "Pete Templin" <pete.templin@texlink.com>
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
In-Reply-To: <74E9F3444C71374BBC58FEA29FC2E51166FE3B@xwing.texlinkcom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Yes. The whole system was organized around the FedEx shipping schedule,
including
when the trucks would show up in Wiamea Canyon, Kauai (no later than
noon, local time).
Labels would be preprinted and boxes would be ready to go, as there was
about 1/2 hour
from end of tape spin to beginning of the shipping window.
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 09:53 AM, Pete Templin wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marshall Eubanks [mailto:tme@multicasttech.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:58 PM
> To: David G. Andersen
> Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson; nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...
>
> BTW, when I did VLBI for the Navy, we used to move literally tons of
> tapes around the world
> per month and achieved sustained bandwidths > 1 Gbps, albeit with
> FED-EX, not routers.
>
> Does this take into account the delay from encapsulating the tapes into
> a FED-EX packet and assigning the appropriate layer 1 header, then the
> queueing delays experienced while awaiting an open buffer on the next
> FED-EX truck?
>
> Pete Templin
> IP Network Engineer
> TexLink Communications
> (210) 892-4183
> pete.templin@texlink.com
>
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
T.M. Eubanks
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