Transfer Time for Files & Backups (and When a Courier Wins)
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In this lesson
You calculate how long five of Pinemoor's transfers take, how much fits in the 8-hour night window, and whether shipping disks beats the network for an 18,000 GiB archive.
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Lessons in this course
- Bits vs Bytes: Mbps, MB/s, GB and GiB Locked
- Transfer Time for Files & Backups (and When a Courier Wins) Locked
- Propagation Delay & RTT from Distance (Speed of Light in Fibre) Locked
- Bandwidth-Delay Product & the TCP Window Limit Locked
- Packet Loss & Throughput: the Mathis Formula (Simplified) Locked
- Protocol Overhead & Goodput: Headers, MTU and Jumbo Frames Locked
- Link Utilisation & Queueing Delay (M/M/1, Simplified) Locked
- Sizing a WAN Link: 95th-Percentile Billing (Chart) Locked