[11108] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: is there a market for this?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Salo)
Mon Jul 21 18:53:19 1997
From: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 17:47:34 -0500 (CDT)
To: cbw@atlantic.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:02:46 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Chris Wilson <cbw@atlantic.net>
> Subject: Re: is there a market for this?
> [...]
> I was (somewhat) following a dicussion about high speed communications
> handled over the PCI bus, and there's a company that makes T1/T3-level
> serial cards for PC's, and from what they were saying, there's no way to
> reach even a full T3 worth of bandwidth on a PCI bus, so I think trying to
> push an OC-# connection over it might be pushing it a bit ;)
This doesn't sound right.
As some random data point, we have run ~70 Mbps (ttcp) using ATM as well as
Fast Ethernet between 133 MHz Pentiums. I suspect that a faster Pentium
would fill an OC-3c ATM link.
-tjs
