[118059] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Sat Oct 10 22:42:49 2009
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:41:36 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <BD32F07B-272D-4B33-AB44-D8AE38BC4412@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009, Fred Baker wrote:
> Are we talking about bit rate, which one might expect to be modified
> by environmental characteristics and is in fact very tightly
> controlled to prevent that, or traffic volume?
Not true with modem type technologies, where the available transmission
rate is a function of how many available frequency space slices are
deemed to be "good" at any one time.
This isn't really like SDH (from what I've read of SDH, anyway.)
Adrian
