For us people down under, the Southern Cross is the biggest, fattest pipe we have seen... If this can transfer at 120Gb/sec - the media says thats about a full length DVD every second or so...
lets just assume for a second that GB has the same size link... that's a DVD of info every second...
now, thats 86,400 DVD's of data a day, 31,536,000 DVDs per year, 220,752,000 for the intended archive period...
say the average for the DVD is 5Gb - that's a total of 1,103,760,000 Gb that needs to be archived over a seven year period...
I know this assumes a pipe utilisation of 100% over that time and is probably hugely flawed - but it gives you an idea of how utterly hopeless this idea is:)
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For us people down under, the Southern Cross is the biggest, fattest pipe we have seen... If this can transfer at 120Gb/sec - the media says thats about a full length DVD every second or so...
lets just assume for a second that GB has the same size link... that's a DVD of info every second...
now, thats 86,400 DVD's of data a day, 31,536,000 DVDs per year, 220,752,000 for the intended archive period...
say the average for the DVD is 5Gb - that's a total of 1,103,760,000 Gb that needs to be archived over a seven year period...
I know this assumes a pipe utilisation of 100% over that time and is probably hugely flawed - but it gives you an idea of how utterly hopeless this idea is