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'Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.'

2PB (5,000 lbs) / 4 days = 46 Gbps (excluding setup time)

Not bad, but not extraordinary

You should consider the impact of distance here as well...

This is from Andrew Tanenbaum AFAIR

(2 petabytes)/(1 gigabit/second) = 185.2 days

Good luck downloading that :)

Many companies and universities are connected to the internet backbone with 40 Gbps. No luck needed.

We're a CERN connected site and originally 'only' had 10x10G feeds. When the first data started to come in the network guy was looking a bit worried and said "the plane's coming into land, and the runway isn't nearly long enough..."

It has been pushed back to later this year.

Ah, thanks for the update.