[73871] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet speed report...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue Sep 7 02:57:31 2004
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:56:07 +0300
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@mail.iucc.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409062208440.12238-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 10:24 PM 06-09-04 +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Simon Leinen wrote:
>
> > As I said, it would be great if it were possible to build fast networks
> > with modest buffers, and use end-to-end (TCP) improvements to fill the
> > "needs" of the Petabyte/Internet2 Land Speed Record crowd.
>
>I do believe that the high-speed (more than 10% of core network speed) TCP
>connection is almost exclusive to the research/academic community.
>
>I think you're on the right track in the thoughts to develop a new TCP
>implementation solely for the application you describe above, and that it
>makes more economic sense to do this than to build with the quite a lot
>more expensive equipment with larger buffers.
>
>I guess the cost of developing a tweaked TCP protocol would be in the
>neighbourhood of the cost of a couple of OC192 linecards for the GSR :/
Ask Mentat:
http://www.mentat.com/tcp/tcpdata.html
-Hank
>--
>Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
