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launched AWS Snowball, a 50 lb (23 kg), 50 TB device for transporting data to the AWS cloud; and in 2016 AWS Snowmobile, a truck to transport up to 100 PB of data in one load. For similar reasons, there is also a Google
Transfer Appliance, an IBM Cloud Mass Data Migration device,
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ADSL line. The data was to be transferred a distance of 132 kilometres (82 mi) by road. The pigeon won the race with a time of approximately 1 hour 5 minutes, the car came in second at 2 hours 10 minutes, while the internet transfer did not finish, having dropped out a second time and not come
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collectively maintain an archive of hundreds of terabytes of data. Four terabytes of the latest Indian or
American movies or Turkish TV dramas, dubbed in the Afghan national languages Dari and Pashto reportedly wholesale for about 800 afghanis, or nine US dollars, while the retail price of five
845:. Many of the schools in Bhutan have computers or IT labs, but no Internet connection (or a very slow one). The sneakernet, facilitated by teachers, distributes about 25 GB of free, open-source educational software to the schools, often using external
1054:; secondly, the volumes of data concerned are often extremely high; and thirdly, setting up secure network links between the client business and the analytics team's facilities is often either impossible or an extremely convoluted process.
796:" distribute Internet-derived content by hand: "Movies, music, mobile applications, iOS updates, and naughty videos. Also creating Apple IDs and social media accounts, and backing up and unlocking phones and recovering data." The
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1042:, such as ledger entries, customer data and financial statistics. There are several reasons for this: firstly, sneakernets can generally provide very high security (and possibly more importantly, they are
907:, revealed that he used a series of USB thumb drives to store his email drafts. A courier of his would then take the saved emails to a nearby Internet cafe and send them out to the desired recipients.
655:. Sneakernets enable data transfer through physical means and offer a solution in the presence of network connections that lack reliability; however, a consequence of this physical transfer is high
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repeated this experiment. The experiment had the team transfer a 700 MB file via three delivery methods to determine which was the fastest; A carrier pigeon with a
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ships hard drives to a data reduction site in
Socorro, New Mexico. They refer to their data transfer mechanism as "HDOA" (Hard Drives On Airplane).
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link. A similar experiment was conducted in England in September 2010; the
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1684:"Fighting The State, Without The Web: North Korea's Sneakernet Insurgency"
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651:, rather than transmitting it over a
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2086:Dignan, Larry (November 30, 2016).
2007:"Overview of Data Transfer Service"
1832:"SA Pigeon 'Faster than broadband'"
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2175:Mearian, Lucas (August 18, 2015).
2040:(4). July 31, 2003. Archived from
1923:"Google helps terabyte data swaps"
1531:Kumar, Ruchi (November 26, 2021).
1463:"Sneakernet Redux: Walk Your Data"
14:
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2400:Internet censorship circumvention
1950:"Google's Next-Gen of Sneakernet"
1948:Farivar, Cyrus (March 20, 2007).
1697:Greenberg, Andy (March 1, 2015).
1138:There's a lot of band-width in a
1029:Very Long Baseline Interferometry
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1903:Lindow, Megan (April 23, 2004).
1554:Marquis, Bret (March 29, 1983).
1461:Boutin, Paul (August 26, 2002).
1408:10.1109/icsecc51444.2020.9557509
1299:, such as the Haggle project at
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560:Comparison of BitTorrent clients
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1905:"Seeking Riches From the Poor"
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2209:Computing: A Second Course
2206:Gruenberger, Fred (1971).
1588:"Rigsum Sherig Collection"
1402:. IEEE. pp. 287–291.
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1205:The very first problem in
1149:Computing: A Second Course
1112:network to provide global
1065:Observation data from the
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1613:"Khan Academy on a Stick"
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2577:Anti-censorship software
1556:"Australia joins USENET"
1104:. This allowed to build
1048:man-in-the-middle attack
1033:Very Long Baseline Array
1006:or export data from it.
3287:Software license server
2450:Great Firewall of China
1535:. MIT Technology Review
1297:Delay-tolerant networks
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3126:Software as a service
2920:Software distribution
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2044:on December 5, 2009.
1858:. September 17, 2010.
1838:. September 10, 2009.
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122:Video on demand sites
85:Online video platform
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3091:Digital distribution
2946:Free and open-source
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2241:Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
1892:. November 10, 2009.
1777:The Washington Times
1497:(February 8, 2013).
1475:on November 19, 2009
1442:on November 19, 2015
1329:Air gap (networking)
1311:April Fools' Day RFC
1301:Cambridge University
1074:Haystack Observatory
1031:performed using the
1019:Berkeley, California
996:through sneakernet.
994:Google Cloud Storage
823:University of Sydney
516:By country or region
3323:Computer networking
3222:Software maintainer
3004:Commercial software
2992:Compensation models
2440:DNS cache poisoning
2435:IP address blocking
2415:Internet censorship
2324:(August 18, 2007).
1207:Andrew S. Tanenbaum
1173:Andrew S. Tanenbaum
1059:Amazon Web Services
3282:Software copyright
3272:Product activation
3227:Software publisher
2941:Floating licensing
2718:Anonymous software
2684:Browser extensions
2302:. February 6, 1989
2275:"Fedex Bandwidths"
1779:. Associated Press
1147:Fred Gruenberger,
858:El Paquete Semanal
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407:Streaming programs
243:Academic/scholarly
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2361:on June 28, 2015.
2246:Computer Networks
1799:McCullagh, Declan
1644:on June 15, 2013.
1499:"FedEx Bandwidth"
1436:Oxford Dictionary
1417:978-1-7281-7588-1
1211:Computer Networks
1209:'s 1981 textbook
1120:("Soviet Union")
984:of data from the
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710:Compact cassettes
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