[9782] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: connectivity outside the US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Sun Jun 1 19:11:04 1997
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 19:03:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com>
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
cc: North American Network Operator Goobers <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199706012133.OAA24270@wisdom.home.vix.com>
You can always have compartively small land lines to handle burst
traffic. And the bulk of the data [lower priority] over the satellite links.
[Similar to the way Oracle handles interactive video over cable.]
-Deepak.
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> > 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.
>
