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What do you consider "in flight"? There's an old joke from Tanenbaum: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

And while it was very much not a high-capacity technique, you might find the mercury delay-line memory used by early computers interesting if you haven't heard of it before.




A concrete example is AWS Snowmobile which claims up to 100PB in transit via a shipping container.

https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/


Whoa! Delay line is awesome, never heard of it before.

Vaguely reminds me of the spool with 38 miles of fiber used to thwart high frequency traders. https://www.iexexchange.io/technology




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