[5136] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet II is coming...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph T. Klein)
Wed Oct 9 16:01:46 1996
From: "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@nap.net>
To: stephen@clark.net (Stephen Balbach)
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:40:11 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: perry@piermont.com, dorian@cic.net, smd@cesium.clock.org, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.961009150605.13700E-100000@explorer2> from "Stephen Balbach" at Oct 9, 96 03:08:00 pm
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> There is a "perception" of lack of bandwidth. MAE EAST is running at %30
> capacity of a 100Mb switched FDDI. Figure there are about 30 providers
> each with 45Mb pipe - a bandwidth shortage does not add-up - There are
> many other metrics that effect performance besides bandwidth. How does
> Internet II solve the other sources of performance problems?
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> Stephen Balbach "Driving the Internet To Work"
> VP, ClarkNet due to the high volume of mail I receive please quote
> info@clark.net the full original message in your reply.
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The bandwidth issue IS a problem. If you look closely at the stats
you can see that traffic curves tend to flatten out far below the
theoretical limit. A number of factors that cause this are related
to I/O limits by major peers at the meet points.
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