Yes. The whole system was organized around the FedEx shipping schedule, including when the trucks would show up in Wiamea Canyon, Kauai (no later than noon, local time). Labels would be preprinted and boxes would be ready to go, as there was about 1/2 hour from end of tape spin to beginning of the shipping window. On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 09:53 AM, Pete Templin wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: Marshall Eubanks [mailto:tme@multicasttech.com] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:58 PM To: David G. Andersen Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...

BTW, when I did VLBI for the Navy, we used to move literally tons of tapes around the world per month and achieved sustained bandwidths > 1 Gbps, albeit with FED-EX, not routers.

Does this take into account the delay from encapsulating the tapes into a FED-EX packet and assigning the appropriate layer 1 header, then the queueing delays experienced while awaiting an open buffer on the next FED-EX truck?

Pete Templin IP Network Engineer TexLink Communications (210) 892-4183 pete.templin@texlink.com

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