[5166] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet II is coming...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Thu Oct 10 15:02:32 1996
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 11:58:56 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
Cc: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@biddeford.com>
At 05:20 PM 09-10-96 -0400, Fletcher E Kittredge wrote:
>So a 10Mbps fiber ATM circuit translates, after the cell tax and
>packet stredding, to 6Mbps on a real link. Is this not slow enough to
>be a bottleneck?
>
>regards,
>fletcher
>
>
Even if a 10Mbps ATM circuit resulted in as little as a 6Mbps TCP payload,
then PPP would give you about 7.2Mbps, since ATM costs you about 12% over
PPP, given measured packet size distributions from FIX West.
Is this not slow enough to be a bottleneck?
--Kent
