Ungodly packet loss rates

Tue Oct 22 02:44:52 UTC 1996

Bill Manning wrote:

	In fact... :)

	To borrow from your FedEx model.. 

	We can build bigger doors (MTU)  but the conveyer belts are stuck
	at 100Mm/sec.  We need faster conveyer belts!

	(waiting for HPPI-64 or G-Ether technologies w/ baited breath :)

	And then watch out 2-4Gbps backplanes... (that is aggregate right?)

Oh, well.

You do not need 2 or whatever Gbps backplanes to build
terabit per second networks.

--vadim