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Re: links on the blink

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Postel)
Sun Nov 12 04:39:08 1995

Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 01:27:21 -0800
From: postel@ISI.EDU (Jon Postel)
To: nanog@merit.edu


>   The net's usability slowly declined over the years until reaching a
>   level even network engineers couldn't hand over, then it would
>   suddenly take a leap to a new bandwidth plateau.

>   How about a few positive suggestions which could be implemented in
>   the short-term.
   
Sean:

Get more bandwidth.

--jon.
   
Dennis:

Right.  We are way overdue for a major step up in bandwidth.  What we
need is OC12 bit pipes (no stinking ATM cells) and Routers that can
handle them.

--jon.

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