[1016] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
bandwidth of the phone system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Herb Lin)
Tue Jul 16 10:16:56 1991
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 91 09:48:00 EDT
From: Herb Lin <HLIN%NAS.BITNET@psi.com>
To: Craig Partridge <craig@sics.se>, tal@warren.mentorg.com
Cc: nren-discuss@psi.com, com-priv@psi.com
> 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...
%%%%% A recent speech by Sol Buschsbaum (senior VP for AT&T) says
that the AT&T long distance network supports a total bandwidth
of about 20 gigabits. But that's of course highly multiplexed.
herb lin
