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Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...


From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 22:09:51 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

Production commercial networks need not apply, 'lest someone realize that 
they blow away these speed records on a regular basis.

What kind of production environment needs a single TCP stream of data 
at 1 gigabit/s over a 150ms latency link? 

Just the fact that you need a ~20 megabyte TCP window size to achieve this
(feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here) seems kind of unusal to me.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se


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