[5609] in North American Network Operators' Group
Fast Networks [was Re: Ungodly packet loss rates]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Tue Oct 22 15:42:49 1996
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:40:14 -0700
To: bmanning@isi.edu
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 06:54 PM 21-10-96 -0700, bmanning@ISI.EDU wrote:
>
> We can build bigger doors (MTU) but the conveyer belts are stuck
> at 100Mm/sec. We need faster conveyer belts!
We have them now.
>
> (waiting for HPPI-64 or G-Ether technologies w/ baited breath :)
No need to wait.
(Oh, and it would be better if your breath were bated rather than baited :-)
>
> And then watch out 2-4Gbps backplanes... (that is aggregate right?)
>
>--
>--bill
>
>
There are technologies that already have aggregate throughput of 20+Gbps.
--Kent
speaking as a L2 agnostic and PacBell NAP consultant
