[5475] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GigaRouter Latency?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sat Oct 19 20:38:39 1996
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 17:31:35 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
To: deepak@jain.com, nanog@merit.edu
Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com> wrote:
>Latency in a router is only somewhat important for most network
>applications but on some applications it has a very serious effect. If
>anyone would like to flame me, please do it in private email and I am
>sure I will find the time to get back to you :).
I'd like to point out that 1 ns of latency equivalent to 1 ft of wire
(more-less), so 1 ms of latency is 190 miles of wire.
It is not a serious delay, when compared with typical thousand-mile
backbone links.
(1 ms is a _lot_ of time to route a packet).
--vadim
