Latest Tweets:
This is a place for spontaneous ideas that I or others have, which have a measure of sense and usefulness, but which the poster is unlikely to pursue due to time or inclination. For me, mostly time. If you like the idea, take it and run with it. Please be kind enough to cite the post you used and/or tell me if it provided you with inspiration or proved helpful. Don't worry, I, and anyone who post and idea, won't sue, but we may ask to help. It is how you execute it that counts, not the idea. If the idea already exists, then please tell me so I can use it. Now, go make something useful!
Ask me anything | Please share your creative ideas. | Archive | RSS
We have a problem at work, how to get a large amount of data from one distant location to another. We could dump the data one or more disks and either FedEx it to us or have someone carry it on a plane. Either is pretty expensive and, if you are bringing it internationally, runs the risk of getting stuck in customs.
We could set up a dedicated line between there and here, but the lead time is a month or more and they want their customers to rent it for a while.
What is needed is a service where you plunk down your corporate credit card and rent a dedicated pipe between two locations for a brief time (a day or two). The pipe would need to be SSL of course. With all of the excess fiber rolled out in the late 90s, I would think that someone could pay for dedicated lines and then rent them out for a day or so.
