[AusNOG] Temporary High Speed Links/Transfer Service?

[Tony]

The OP did say:

>>  ~2TB of data from Houston to Perth, in under 24 hours?

Google maps gives the flight time between those two locations as 23h 45m, so despite the capacity of sneakernet being greater (a guy on a plane with a suitcase full of tapes could have 100's of TB or even PB of data) it still wouldn't make it within the time constraint imposed by the OP in this case.


About the only way to get it there in time by moving physical media would be to use something other than a commercial flight. Even if you could hire a jet fighter to deliver it for you, they have a limited range and would need to refuel a handful of times along the way. The Concorde is retired now, might have been able to fly fast enough, but would still have to stop and refuel a couple of times along the way. The leg from Hawaii to Brisbane (or Sydney) is quite possibly outside the ability of the Concorde though (in terms of range on a single tank of fuel) and I'm not sure if there is some island in the middle of the Pacific that you would have been able to land a Concorde on ?

The only way to get the data transferred between the two locations in this case is to do it online. Regardless of the volume of data, physics/logistics say that it's not possible/practical any other way with a 24-hr deadline.


regards,
Tony.
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From: Jonathan Thorpe <jthorpe at Conexim.com.au>
To: Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com>; "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> 
Sent: Friday, 3 July 2015, 14:05
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Temporary High Speed Links/Transfer Service?



Tape is actually pretty fast if the entire operation needs to be done sequentially.
 


From:AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Paul Wilkins
Sent: Friday, 3 July 2015 1:56 PM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Temporary High Speed Links/Transfer Service?
 
Yeah, but I think the time to dump to tape and restore is a factor here, if the data is time critical.
Paul Wilkins
 
On 3 July 2015 at 10:15, Greg Foletta <greg at foletta.org> wrote:
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
>—Tanenbaum, Andrew S
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>Greg Foletta
>greg at foletta.org
>+61 408 199 630
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>On 2 July 2015 at 19:28, Brad Peczka <brad at bradpeczka.com> wrote:
>...and this is why AusNOG is awesome!
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>>Thanks to all who responded, currently working through the options available and will let the list know what eventuates.
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>>Kind regards,
>>-Brad Peczka
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>>Sent from my mobile device.
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>>> On 2 Jul 2015, at 5:04 pm, Adam Gardner <Adam.Gardner at vocus.com.au> wrote:
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>>> Hi Brad,
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>>> Please give me a call and we can sort it out for you. Provisioning the port right now.
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>>> Kind regards,
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>>>> On 2/07/2015 6:34 pm, "AusNOG on behalf of Brad Peczka" <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net on behalf of brad at bradpeczka.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Shane.
>>>>
>>>> To clarify - 24 hours was worst case... if someone's got gigabits available and can get it here in a much shorter timeframe, I'm happy to talk. :-)
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> -Brad.
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: AusNOG [ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Shane Chrisp [shane at 2000cn.com.au]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, 2 July 2015 4:31 PM
>>>> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>>>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Temporary High Speed Links/Transfer Service?
>>>>
>>>> On 02/07/15 16:23, Brad Peczka wrote:
>>>>
>>>> To help put this in perspective, you will need at least 200Mbps to get
>>>> 2TB transferred in under 24 hours. Unfortunately I do not have that sort
>>>> of spare bandwidth to help you out, but hopefully someone does.
>>>>
>>>> Shane
>>>>
>>>>> Hello All,
>>>>>
>>>>> Slightly left of centre question - short of getting on a plane or Fedex, is anyone aware of a service that can get ~2TB of data from Houston to Perth, in under 24 hours?
>>>>>
>>>>> I've got a large amount of time-sensitive data to move, but I'm not aware of any services where I can rent capacity on a link for just the period I need to export it over, or borrow some infrastructure at either end just to perform the export.
>>>>>
>>>>> Replies are welcome on or off list, and if there's enough interest I'll provide the end result back to the list once complete.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> -Brad.
>>>>>