[56446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Sat Mar 8 13:56:43 2003
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
"Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>,
"Hank Nussbacher" <hank@att.net.il>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
"North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 12:55:14 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Hank Nussbacher" <hank@att.net.il>
> At 03:53 PM 07-03-03 -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> >Production commercial networks need not apply, 'lest someone
> >realize that they blow away these speed records on a regular basis.
>
> Please document it so as to shame these I2 networks. Somehow, I
> doubt you will be able to.
Internet/2 is not interesting because it has big pipes; the public Internet
has much bigger pipes and more of them. I/2 is interesting only because it
has fewer users -- by two or three orders of magnitude -- and most/all of
these users are connected by FastE or better.
However, there is no need to waste funding buying uber-fast routers or GigE
links around the globe just to learn how to tune stacks or apps. If
high-speed TCP research is what you're doing, rig up a latency generator in
your laboratory and do your tests that way, just like the TCPSAT folks.
Spending millions of (probably taxpayer) dollars to win a meaningless record
is unethical, IMHO.
S
Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein
CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
