[1105] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
FIDDI LANS and T-3 speeds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Sutterfield)
Thu Aug 1 18:19:24 1991
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 91 18:18:22 -0400
From: Bob Sutterfield <bob@MorningStar.Com>
To: tmn!cook@uunet.uu.net
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: tmn!cook@uunet.uu.net's message of Thu Aug 1 18:03:57 1991 <9108012206.AA21647@relay2.UU.NET>
From: tmn!cook@uunet.uu.net
Date: Thu Aug 1 18:03:57 1991
... [converting] campus ethernets into FIDDI LANS... this will be
necessary before individual users at a campus can take advantage
of multimegabit dedicated bandwidth made possible by the t-3
backbone.
FDDI is one technology that's capable of delivering big bandwidth to
the desktop, for an individual user to benefit. But individual users,
even those with archaic old Ethernets to their desktops, will benefit
from the existence of fatter pipes carrying their long-haul traffic.
There will be more space in the pipe, and they won't be elbowing other
individual users out of the way so much. Ethernet users may not get
as big a chunk of the fat pipe as FDDI users, but they should see
their Ethernets fuller, rather than loafing, more often.
