Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:07:42PM +0000, James Bensley wrote:
> I'm wondering why despite all this comparatively magical speed
> increase we have seen over the last decade, with 10 times better on
> the horizon, we the customer ever get a 1:1 speed ratio?

        speed kills...

        actually, the killer here is PMTU... there is almost no
        way to effectively utilize the BW when the MTU is locked to
        1500 bytes.

--bill

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> Regards,
> James ;)
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