[12417] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Barron)
Mon Sep 15 17:29:43 1997
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:21:07 -0500
From: Rob Barron <rbarron@acrux.net>
Reply-To: rbarron@acrux.net
To: Mark Kent <mark@mainstreet.net>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
Mark Kent wrote:
>
> Rob Barron <rbarron@acrux.net> wrote:
> >> A good way to visualize this is to imagine a long pipe with an
> >> inside diameter just large enough to hold a ping pong ball
>
> Those of you who want the Internet described in terms of elementary
> particles might also be interested in a bit of detail left off
> by Rob Barron:
>
> A ping pong ball is 37.2mm to 38.2mm in diameter and
> weighs 2.40 to 2.53 grams.
>
> So a 40mm inside diameter seems to be called for.
It's also very important to use high-quality balls. This leads to lower
BER (Ball Error Rates)
Also, larger bandwidth facilities may be represented by volleyballs,
basketballs and in the near future, cageballs. :)
-rob
