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Re:F*EX – Frams' Fast File EXchange by perl4ever on Friday June 01, 2018 @11:41PM (#17212535)
Today, the equivalent is an Amazon Snowmobile, a 45 foot shipping container weighing 34 tons transported on a semi-truck. Transfers about 100 petabytes at a time. They claim it can be filled "in less than 10 days". Of course, multiple Snowmobiles can be used in parallel if you have exabytes to transfer.

Assuming it takes about 3 weeks to turn around, my arithmetic says each truck has a bandwidth of about 460 Gbps.

"Q: How do I connect my data center to Snowmobile?

Each Snowmobile comes with a removable high-speed connector rack on wheels with two kilometers of ruggedized networking cable."

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/

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