Friday, September 11, 2009

Homing Pigeon Faster Than Broadband?

What was old is new again.
IT experts at a firm in South Africa said it takes up to six hours to transfer four gigabytes of encrypted data between two of its offices which lie 50 miles apart.

Today staff at the financial services company will save valuable time by instead having the information transported by a homing pigeon named Winston.

Workers will attach a memory card containing the data to bird's leg and let nature take its course.

Experts believe the specially-trained 11-month-old pigeon will complete the flight in just 45 minutes - and at a fraction of the cost.
Click the picture to read the article.

Thanks To Keith at BagOfNothing

No comments:

Post a Comment