[2465] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CIDR, Sprint and the Big guys.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Sat Apr 6 14:10:17 1996
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 12:04:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604061820.AA13893@>
On Sat, 6 Apr 1996, Wolfgang Henke wrote:
> As Robert Moskovitz pointed out, even the growth in common used backbones
> speeds is not keeping up:
>
> 1. 56 kbps
> 2. 1.544 Mbps increase by 24
> 3. 44.736 Mbps increase by 28
> 4. 155.520 Mbps increase by merely 3
>
> Just keeping in step with past growth patterns would require a step
> to OC-24c at 1244.15 Mbps now, but there are no routers which come
> even close to those speeds.
Even backbones are not backbones anymore. Sprint, MCI et al. operate
meshes with multiple internal paths. If you have an average of 8 alternate
paths of OC3c, then you get closer to a 24x multiple of DS3. Of course
it's not really that simple, but I don't think that things are as bad
as they look in your table above.
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