Google’s Next-Gen of Sneakernet
MAR 21, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020958
Wired : How do you get 120 terabytes of data -- the equivalent of 123,000 iPod shuffles (roughly 30 million songs) -- from A to B? For the most part, the old-fashioned way: via a sneakernet. It’s not glamorous, but Google engineers hope to at least end the arduous process of transferring massive quantities of data -- which can literally take weeks to upload onto the internet -- with something affectionately called “FedExNet” by the scientists who use it.
© 2007 American Institute of Physics
