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[James Knott]

Colin McGregor wrote:
> On 10/24/08, Ansar Mohammed <ansarm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   
>> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling
>> down the highway. -Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1996).
>>     
>
> True the bandwidth of the above is incredible, but the latency sucks :-) .
>
>   

Not to long ago, I was reading about that LHC at Cern, which will
produce so much data (about 1.25 GB/s), that it's faster to distribute
it via physical media than over the internet!




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