By now, everyone should be able to enjoy the massive network at this years TG. If you, like us, are a sucker for statistics, you'll probably enjoy this.
As most of you have heard by now, we transfer way more data through our coreswitch than NIX, which is nothing else than impressive. Even though this is cool, it's kinda hard to grasp the actual scope of it. So, in this next practical example we hope to aid you with some mental graphics.
Today, Friday March 25th, the coreswitch peaked at 11,2 Gbit of data transferred each second. If we convert bits to bytes we get 1,4 Gbyte of data. If we further on take into concideration that one standard CD can hold 700 megabytes, we can conclude with the facts that 2 CDs are being transferred through the coreswitch each second.
Lets calculate the amount of data pr 24-hour period. Knowing that one CD is about 2 mm. thick, and that there are 86.400 seconds in a day, we can estimate the height of a stack - if we were to put all these discs on top of eachother. This stack would contain 172.800 disks and be 345 meters high!
For arguments sake, lets pretend that this load was kept during the whole party. We would have one 345 m. pile each of the five days, which would result in one giant... no, enormous, stack of CDs roaming 1,7 km. up in the air! Yeah, we're geeks ;-)
These delightful news was brought to you by Daniel Skovli
