Re: Internet II is coming...

[salo () msc edu (Tim Salo)]

> Subject: Re: Internet II is coming... 
> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 17:20:17 -0400
> From: Fletcher E  Kittredge <fkittred () biddeford com>
>
> On Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:13:03 -0700 (PDT)  Michael Dillon wrote:
> > My ISP has a 10Mbps fibre ATM circuit to BCNet in Vancouver that was
> > installed in Aplril 1995. From there it connects to CA*Net which has a T3
> > into MCI Seattle as well as links to the East where more T3's head south
> > to MCI. The T3's were T1's until Sept 1995 at which point there was a
> > small improvement in speed at times.
>
> So a 10Mbps fiber ATM circuit translates, after the cell tax and
> packet stredding, to 6Mbps on a real link.  Is this not slow enough to
> be a bottleneck?

And, an OC-12c ATM circuit can provide nearly 540 Mbps of TCP
data, after SONET, ATM, IP and TCP overheads.

Perhaps, I missed your point...

-tjs
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