Bandwidth

[mdlbear]

Remember what I've been saying about the relative growth rates of storage and network bandwidth?

As I mentioned recently in a comment to a post on Groklaw, the bandwidth of a carrier pigeon is nothing to sneeze at. If you figure that a bird can carry two SD cards, which are up to 4GBytes these days, then a 1-hour trip will carry north of 8MBits/sec, or about 8 times the bandwidth of a T1 line.

I'm still waiting to hear that Google is trucking data around to synchronize their server farms. A couple of years, I'd guess.

Comments

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

>> I'm still waiting to hear that Google is trucking data around to synchronize their server farms. A couple of years, I'd guess.

The classy way to do this is to ship (in shock-sensitive packs) hard drives, usually on a daily or weekly basis, between your data centers.

[mdlbear]

I understand Google is building data centers into shipping containers these days.