[cam.misc] Re: Skype and Webcam

[David Sawford]

Subject: Re: Skype and Webcam
From: Jules <jules.rich...@remove.this.gmail.com>
Newsgroups: cam.misc

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:39:24 +0100, Andrew Feldhaus wrote:
> Wikipedia and various other highly dubious sources provide
> back-of-the-envelope estimates along the lines of:
>
> 747 cargo limit: About 130 Tonnes
> Bluray Disc: 50GB/disc, about 25g per disc
> Hence about: 260 Petabytes (SI prefix) per plane
> Flight time: 7 hours or so
> Total bandwidth: Roughly 10 Terabytes, so 80 Terabits, per second

Bit of a pisser if you get there and find that one of the discs is
knackered and you have to retransmit, though.

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