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I wonder what the record for "in-flight" data would be, and who would hold it.

Seems like earth satellites might have huge pipes, but the data arrives too quickly to build up.

Maybe 94GB would do it.



What do you consider "in flight"? There's an old joke from Tanenbaum: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

And while it was very much not a high-capacity technique, you might find the mercury delay-line memory used by early computers interesting if you haven't heard of it before.


A concrete example is AWS Snowmobile which claims up to 100PB in transit via a shipping container.

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


Whoa! Delay line is awesome, never heard of it before.

Vaguely reminds me of the spool with 38 miles of fiber used to thwart high frequency traders. https://www.iexexchange.io/technology




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