Re: Internet II is coming...

["Kent W. England" <kwe () 6SigmaNets com>]

At 05:20 PM 09-10-96 -0400, Fletcher E  Kittredge wrote:
> 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?
>
> regards,
> fletcher
Even if a 10Mbps ATM circuit resulted in as little as a 6Mbps TCP payload,
then PPP would give you about 7.2Mbps, since ATM costs you about 12% over
PPP, given measured packet size distributions from FIX West.

Is this not slow enough to be a bottleneck?

--Kent

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