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Pigeon transfers data faster than S. Africa's service provider
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:49:02 -0700
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) — A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved that it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom, the country's leading Internet service provider. Internet speed and connectivity in Africa's largest economy are poor because of a bandwidth shortage. It is also expensive. Local news agency SAPA reported the 11-month-old pigeon, Winston, took one hour and eight minutes to fly the 50 miles from Unlimited IT's offices near Pietermaritzburg to the coastal city of Durban with a data card was strapped to his leg. Including downloading, the transfer took two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds — the time it took for only 4% of the data to be transferred using a Telkom line. SAPA said Unlimited IT performed the stunt after becoming frustrated with slow internet transmission times. The company has 11 call-centers around the country and regularly sends data to its other branches. Telkom could not immediately be reached for comment. Internet speed is expected to improve once a 17,000 km underwater fiber optic cable linking southern and East Africa to other networks becomes operational before South Africa hosts the soccer World Cup next year. Local service providers are currently negotiating deals for more bandwidth. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-09-09-pigeon-faster_N.htm - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFKqD7nq1pz9mNUZTMRAu8bAJ9Ftq0Sh1ibXs6Y994BYS32W/wqIwCfdI8H bWUUYxP3SYBcE7n9hQqmeZg= =g6oe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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