[56400] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Fri Mar 7 16:12:55 2003
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 22:09:51 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20030307205322.GH8839@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> Production commercial networks need not apply, 'lest someone realize that
> they blow away these speed records on a regular basis.
What kind of production environment needs a single TCP stream of data
at 1 gigabit/s over a 150ms latency link?
Just the fact that you need a ~20 megabyte TCP window size to achieve this
(feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here) seems kind of unusal to me.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
