[24100] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue May 18 15:16:34 1999
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 12:14:39 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
To: jat@LiveOnTheNet.COM
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
"John A. Tamplin" <jat@LiveOnTheNet.COM> wrote:
>This is assumes that the number of hosts attached are constant. If the
>number of hosts grow exponentially, then the bandwidth required of the
>network will grow faster than exponentially.
I didn't notice any exponential growth of hosts in my home (although
my bandwidth grew from 14.4 to a T-1 meanwhile).
The exponential growth of _connected_ hosts was mostly fueled by
connecting existing machines and by new computer users. Unless
you have a recipe for getting people to breed much faster the
end of that trend is pretty much in sight (witness PC makers
killing themselves in scramble to the way-less-than-affluent market).
--vadim
PS. If you do know that secret recipe please keep it secret :)
