[1014] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
bandwidth of the phone system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Partridge)
Tue Jul 16 03:02:50 1991
To: tal@warren.mentorg.com
Cc: nren-discuss@psi.com, com-priv@psi.com
From: Craig Partridge <craig@sics.se>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 91 09:00:58 +0200
> Well, I don't think I've ever tried to estimate the total
> daily bandwidth used by the telephone system. Honestly, I
> don't want to.
Someone told me that, for long distance calling in the US, the bandwidth
required was less than a gigabit. This may well be wrong, but if right
it is an interesting number, given that a single Cray with Borman's
software can send about that much by its little lonesome...
Craig Partridge
on sabbatical at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science
incoming Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Network Magazine
outgoing Editor, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
