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Re: next-best-transport! down with ethernet!


From: Ray Soucy <rps () maine edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:24:51 -0500

What we really need is a new method of sending data.  The fact that I
will never be able to send something from Maine to California in less
than 15 ms is not acceptable.

The speed of light is such a drag.

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Tei <oscar.vives () gmail com> wrote:
I am php/javascript programmer.

The web used to be request/reply. With the request small (but not
small enough), and the reply long.
But the time for permanent connections is comming.  Links from clients
to server that are permanent.  Or look like that in the application
layer.

On one sense, this is a optimization, no more pooling the server "do
you have something for me?" every n seconds.  But I imagine mostly
make things like caching and proxies pointless.

At some point, users will start getting unhappy with web pages replies
slower than 100 ms.   ATM my webpages takes longer to start Jquery
that all the server-client interactions. Most obvious optimization is
never reload the page, and run everything trough ajax calls.

I am not dumb,  I know turning webpages into applications make
webpages to fragile. But I am scared of javascripts. Javascript is
just too dawmn usefull now, browsers too broken (mostly IE), and
Javascript is like a superhero that fix all.   The web is going to
change in a few years, from a "request" "reply" interchange network,
to something more like a computer "bus".    I don't know how the
"wires" will react to this.



On 30 December 2011 10:58, Vitkovsky, Adam <avitkovsky () emea att com> wrote:
Actually an a Cisco presentation on Nexus 7k I asked whether it's possible to transport the FCoE over let's say 
EoMPLS or VPLS and did not get a straight answer though that was half a year ago
-but it would be really cool to connect hard-drives directly over continents


adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Hill [mailto:tom () ninjabadger net]
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 8:58 PM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: next-best-transport! down with ethernet!

On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 10:06 -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote:
yes, let's get something with say fixed sized packets, ability to have
predictable jitter and also, for fun, no more STP!
Ethernet is too complex, maybe something simpler? I hear there's this
new tech 'ATM'? it seems to fit the bill!

Pfft. Everyone knows that Fibre Channel's going to replace everything...
The minute we get those 128Gbit/sec transmission characteristics,
Ethernet's gonna be as good as RS-485.








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