GigaRouter Latency?

Sun Oct 20 00:31:35 UTC 1996

Deepak Jain <deepak at jain.com> wrote:

>Latency in a router is only somewhat important for most network
>applications but on some applications it has a very serious effect. If
>anyone would like to flame me, please do it in private email and I am
>sure I will find the time to get back to you :).

I'd like to point out that 1 ns of latency equivalent to 1 ft of wire
(more-less), so 1 ms of latency is 190 miles of wire.

It is not a serious delay, when compared with typical thousand-mile
backbone links.

(1 ms is a _lot_ of time to route a packet).

--vadim