[19614] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And we thought the text part of the Starr Report would be bad
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Scharf)
Fri Sep 18 15:04:11 1998
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:58:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jerry Scharf <scharf@vix.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
> As you would expect, they only get the real experts to speak:
>
> "While Bergman was confident ABCNews.com's plans to stream the video in its
> entirety would go fine, Martin Hall of the IP Multicast Initiative says
> the real problems would occur at the user's
> end of the line.
>
> The standard T1 connection of an Internet service provider handles a
> maximum of 53 dialup connections pumping data to a user, he said, but a
> 54th user could cause a major problem."
>
The number of dialups on a T1, the number of bytes in a framed ATM cell.
I see a telco conspiracy here. (:-) for the humor impaied)
jerry
