'Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of quarter-inch tapes'

[bellinghman]

Or in this case, a pigeon carrying a USB memory stick.

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. :)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

There's also the '747 full of DVDs' example.

Of course, latency sucks, badly.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Actually, not quite, since it wasn't working with datagrams.

But RFC1149 has been implemented.

[korenwolf.livejournal.com]

Damm I was about to post the same story :)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Well, the Beeb and the Reg both did before me, so why not?

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Your latency is terrible though.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

VoIP ... speak ... very ... very ... slowly

[khrister.livejournal.com]

William Shatner, is that you?

[jon-a-five.livejournal.com]

Hack the pigeon,
Hack the pigeon,
Hack that pigeon nowwwwwwwww!

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

/me bans jon_a_five

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

So... An Albatross with an SSD drive for communicating with your offshore data centre?

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Dolphins may be better all-weather options. And they'd have higher capacity, I guess.

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

Yes, but they'd have to be clad in tinfoil to deflect the laser beams from the sharks.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

I suspect we'd use trained ravens for data transmission here. After all, they are a tried and tested technology with a numinous user base.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Probably less prone to packet loss in that environment.

(edit: I was thinking of the pigeons, rather than your local tendency to consider dolphins as food.)

Hmm, mixed protocols: given both pigeon and raven based networks, do the ravens interfere with the pigeons?

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

I think that depends on how hungry the ravens are.