[5567] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ungodly packet loss rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Mon Oct 21 22:52:30 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:44:52 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
To: bmanning@ISI.EDU, jon@branch.net
Cc: michael@memra.com, nanog@merit.edu
Bill Manning wrote:
In fact... :)
To borrow from your FedEx model..
We can build bigger doors (MTU) but the conveyer belts are stuck
at 100Mm/sec. We need faster conveyer belts!
(waiting for HPPI-64 or G-Ether technologies w/ baited breath :)
And then watch out 2-4Gbps backplanes... (that is aggregate right?)
Oh, well.
You do not need 2 or whatever Gbps backplanes to build
terabit per second networks.
--vadim
