[5289] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet II is coming...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fletcher E Kittredge)
Mon Oct 14 10:57:24 1996
To: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
cc: fkittred@biddeford.com, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: fkittred@biddeford.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:15:36 CDT."
<199610141415.JAA24878@uh.msc.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:36:37 -0400
From: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@biddeford.com>
On Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:15:36 -0500 (CDT) Tim Salo wrote:
> And, an OC-12c ATM circuit can provide nearly 540 Mbps of TCP
> data, after SONET, ATM, IP and TCP overheads.
>
> Perhaps, I missed your point...
Explicit: 6meg is not very fast for an uplink speed for a whole
ISP.
Implicit: There seems to be a lot of: "It's ATM so it must be
fast" going around. This conclusion does not follow.
regards,
fletcher
