[3942] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Aug 29 17:55:32 1996
To: Stephen Balbach <stephen@clark.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Aug 1996 17:16:38 EDT."
<Pine.GSO.3.95.960829171007.21599U-100000@clark.net>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 17:48:53 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Stephen Balbach writes:
> > I doubt it. The curve is racing upward now because of all the people
> > who are suddenly connecting to the net. Once a large fraction of them
> > are on the curve will slow dramatically -- demand for bandwidth will
> > continue to increase, but only as fast as the customers can eat it,
> > which is by definition related to how fast their equipment runs.
[...]
> constraint will always drive bandwidth to higher speeds. Thus it follows
> Moore's Law as chips get faster, so will computers and conversly -
> bandwidth. There is no end in sight for the need of more bandwidth.
If you had read what I wrote carefully, my claim was simply once
everyone is connected at reasonable speed, demand for bandwidth will
rise as fast as the equipment can cope with it, but no faster. I
thus already addressed your point.
Perry
