[9780] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: connectivity outside the US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Sun Jun 1 17:37:08 1997
To: North American Network Operator Goobers <nanog@merit.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 01 Jun 1997 13:20:22 PDT."
<3.0.1.32.19970601132022.0069eaf8@kurgan.hilander.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 14:33:36 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> High orbit, geosyncronous sattelites do not stand much of a chance against
> land lines as the latency on the links is quite high. [...]
Long latency is not automatically bad. It is bad for interactive traffic,
but if the bandwidth is high enough to reduce congestion to zero, a large
latency doesn't hurt bulky transfers at all. Netnews, for example, could
be distributed via satellite without hurting anybody's lookers or feelers.
