[5571] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ungodly packet loss rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Manning)
Mon Oct 21 23:50:19 1996
From: bmanning@ISI.EDU (Bill Manning)
To: avg@quake.net (Vadim Antonov)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:41:22 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: bmanning@ISI.EDU, jon@branch.net, michael@memra.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610220244.TAA00264@quest.quake.net> from "Vadim Antonov" at Oct 21, 96 07:44:52 pm
>
> 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
Correct. I've got a terabit network on my desk right now.
Its kind of simple and doesn't scale well... only two ports.
But what can you expect from strands of fiber... :)
--bill
