CIDR, Sprint and the Big guys.

Sat Apr 6 20:29:26 UTC 1996

On Saturday, April 06, 1996 6:04 AM, Michael Dillon[SMTP:michael at memra.com] wrote:
@On Sat, 6 Apr 1996, Wolfgang Henke wrote:
@
@> As Robert Moskovitz pointed out, even the growth in common used backbones
@> speeds is not keeping up:
@> 
@> 1.       56 kbps    
@> 2.    1.544 Mbps  increase by 24
@> 3.   44.736 Mbps  increase by 28
@> 4.  155.520 Mbps  increase by merely 3 
@> 
@> Just keeping in step with past growth patterns would require a step
@> to OC-24c at 1244.15 Mbps now, but there are no routers which come
@> even close to those speeds.
@
@Even backbones are not backbones anymore. Sprint, MCI et al. operate
@meshes with multiple internal paths. If you have an average of 8 alternate
@paths of OC3c, then you get closer to a 24x multiple of DS3. Of course 
@it's not really that simple, but I don't think that things are as bad
@as they look in your table above.
@
@
@Michael Dillon                                    Voice: +1-604-546-8022

But don't forget those "bit buckets" that are sitting there ready to handle the
social engineering needs of the net...;-)

...I wonder who has to empty those bit buckets...???...that must be a messy job...

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Jim Fleming
UNETY Systems, Inc.
Naperville, IL 60563

e-mail: JimFleming at unety.net