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Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays
From: Andre Oppermann <nanog-list () nrg4u com>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:41:07 +0200
David Hagel wrote:
This is interesting. This may sound like a naive question. But if queuing delays are so insignificant in comparison to other fixed delay components then what does it say about the usefulness of all the extensive techniques for queue management and congestion control (including TCP congestion control, RED and so forth) in the context of today's backbone networks? Any thoughts? What do the people out there in the field observe? Are all the congestion control researchers out of touch with reality?
Queueing is only ever being used when there is something to queue. In the optical backbones of today this is seldomly the case and all operators are busy telling you there is always excessive bandwidth available on theirs. It gets used whenever a downward speedchange happens: 1Gig -> 100M for example. -- Andre
Current thread:
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays, (continued)
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 21)
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays Robert E . Seastrom (Aug 21)
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays David Hagel (Aug 22)
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays Petri Helenius (Aug 22)
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays Tony Finch (Aug 22)
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays Petri Helenius (Aug 22)
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays Andre Oppermann (Aug 22)
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays Eric A. Hall (Aug 22)
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 22)
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays Richard A Steenbergen (Aug 22)
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays Andre Oppermann (Aug 22)
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays Richard A Steenbergen (Aug 22)
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays Joe Abley (Aug 22)
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays Richard A Steenbergen (Aug 22)
- Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 23)