is there a market for this?
Tim Salo
salo at msc.edu
Mon Jul 21 22:47:34 UTC 1997
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:02:46 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Chris Wilson <cbw at atlantic.net>
> Subject: Re: is there a market for this?
> [...]
> I was (somewhat) following a dicussion about high speed communications
> handled over the PCI bus, and there's a company that makes T1/T3-level
> serial cards for PC's, and from what they were saying, there's no way to
> reach even a full T3 worth of bandwidth on a PCI bus, so I think trying to
> push an OC-# connection over it might be pushing it a bit ;)
This doesn't sound right.
As some random data point, we have run ~70 Mbps (ttcp) using ATM as well as
Fast Ethernet between 133 MHz Pentiums. I suspect that a faster Pentium
would fill an OC-3c ATM link.
-tjs
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