% "Should You Upload or Ship Big Data to the Cloud?", Sachin Date, CACM, July 2016.
% missing equation (1) provided by Ryan Hermsmeyer:
%
TimeTransit_hours = 16;
TimeOverhead = 48;
SpeedIn_MB = 160;
SpeedOut_MB = 160; 

% VolumeContent_TB = [0:200:1000]';
VolumeContent_TB = [0:0.5:5]';

VolumeContent_MB = VolumeContent_TB * 1024 * 1024;
 
TransferTime_hours = VolumeContent_MB / (3600 * SpeedIn_MB) + ...
  TimeTransit_hours + VolumeContent_MB / (3600 * SpeedOut_MB) + ...
  TimeOverhead;

% upload @ 100 Mbps
%
UploadTime_hours = VolumeContent_MB / (3600 * (100/8));

Table = [VolumeContent_TB, UploadTime_hours, TransferTime_hours]

plot( VolumeContent_TB, UploadTime_hours, 'b', ...
  VolumeContent_TB, TransferTime_hours, 'r');
xlabel 'Data Size (Terabytes)'
ylabel 'Time (Hours)'
legend( 'Upload It', 'Ship It', 'Location', 'NorthWest');

print -dpng ship.png