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Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 20:11:30 -0400
Jeremy, You're so funny. ;-) Only Bob Matecalfe's zany antics entertain me more than this [printed] drivel. Thanks for pointing it out. - paul (speaking for myself, of course; standard disclaimers apply) At 06:39 PM 8/28/96 -0500, Jeremy Porter wrote:
Dead of the Net predicted GIF, at 11. If you believe Business Week, August 26, "Above all finacial incentives for investment must ome into line. Right now, customers who pay a mere $20 a month, can blast the net with untold megabytes of data, voice and video. Without usaged-based charges service providers are called on to upgrade their infrastructure with no clear
promise of a return on investment."
Under the section "Dirty Secret" "One dirty little secret is that most phone calls and videoconferences ram their way past data transmissions by using a bully of a communications method called UDP. Unlike the more polite Transmission Control Protocol, TCP, which drops back when it detects congestion, UDP continues at full speed, elbowing ahead of TCP traffic. Yet UDP customers aren't paying anything extra for their fast lane". Sigh, you should see the section on peering. Its worse. Its a good thing none of these journalist used the train, telegraph, or telephone systems when they were growing at these extact same rates, or we wouldn't have trains or telephones today. A little research into the growth of the telephone network reveals very similar patterns. Clue seems to be a conserved quanitity in the universe, such that as the net gets lager the clue-denisty gets lower, thus causing most of the problems we see today. If only we had been able to get the Network Clue Transport Protocol going in time. -- Jeremy Porter, Freeside Communications, Inc. jerry () fc net PO BOX 80315 Austin, Tx 78708 | 1-800-968-8750 | 512-459-9816 http://www.fc.net
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- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS, (continued)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Roger Bohn (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Per Gregers Bilse (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Jeremy Porter (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Edward Henigin (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Michael Dillon (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Edward Henigin (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Michael Dillon (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Roger Bohn (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Alan Hannan (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Dick St.Peters (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Michael Dillon (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Matt Ranney (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Paul A Vixie (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Avi Freedman (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Michael Dillon (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Dick St.Peters (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Paul A Vixie (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Curtis Villamizar (Aug 29)