Beautiful. They have problems and needed it rammed home publicly.
Just the same , paraphrasing and old adage, "Let no one underestimate the bandwidth of a suitcase full of fast media."
I do believe the current champ is data large, physically small, fast memory cards in both GB/cubic and GB/s sustained transfer rates. High resolution digital cameras use them. The better ones use bigger and faster ones. Two or more really big, fast ones could be a viable option for a HD video camera.
Thank you for reminding us that IETF has always been a bit of an unruly group of otherwise usually skilled, usually polite, mostly thoughtful people.
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Just in case you are interested, the original is "a station wagon full of tapes".
Of course now days it depends on data set size, distance, cost, and media transfer rates, and physical size and weight is becoming a more important parameter again currently.
Back of the envelope suggests single copper line bog standard ASDL. The upload transfer rate is considerably less than for download.
8GB SD media are already pretty cheap and will take a decent amount of HDTV. They will continue to get cheaper.SSD are about to come of age. For some applications where random read is important and seek time dominates they represent a big improvement - especially now it is cheap to RAID array them for more bandwidth.
There was a time when global VLBI data was shifted around as truck loads of mass produced VHS tapes back to the correlators. No other method was even remotely cost competitive for the insane amounts of data they had to move. eg.
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Done well, Martinis are ok, but Manhattans are easier to make decently but harder to get really right.
True, but the reusability, write time, read time, and volumetric density of high capacity memory cards can pay for it self against any technology except high density RAID arrays.
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