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Re:The Square Kilometre Array: Radio silence for most powerf... by kenny-log_ins on Friday July 17, 2015 @06:59AM (#9902105)
The optical private network from CERN to the tier 1 site where I work was upgraded from 10 Gb to 40 Gb between the first and second runs of the LHC. depending on what goes on during the second run that might need to be increased again. Building high bandwidth infrastructure for use by lots of (paying!) customers is probably more viable for large corporations than it is for science, where you have a budget at the start rather than having things pay for themselves over time

The storage will need to constantly increase in that time, too.

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Re:The Square Kilometre Array: Radio silence for most powerf... by CHY872 on Friday July 17, 2015 @11:52AM (#9903316)
Yes, of course, but this seems to be a problem where the solution is easily costed, is commercially available etc, whereas I'd imagine that the rest of the project is filled with a whole load of world-firsts.
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Re:The Square Kilometre Array: Radio silence for most powerf... by toomuchtodo on Saturday July 18, 2015 @01:33AM (#9906686)
Tier 1 = fermilab?
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