[100418] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The next broadband killer: advanced operating systems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Oct 23 04:50:36 2007
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:43:38 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <471DB1CC.1000800@spacething.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Sam Stickland wrote:
> servers. From this little bit of evidence I can blazenly extrpolate to
> suggest that maximum bandwidth consumption is currently limited to some
> noticable degree by the lack of widely deployed TCP window size tuning. Links
> that are currently uncongested might suddenly see a sizable amount of extra
> traffic.
So, do we think that traffic will have a higher peak due to this (more
traffic at peak time compared to low time), or that people will actually
transfer more data because they get higher thruput?
I don't see it as natural that people will transfer more data totally
because they get higher thruput.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
