packet reordering at exchange points
Richard A Steenbergen
ras at e-gerbil.net
Wed Apr 10 15:30:26 UTC 2002
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:48:36PM +0100, Peter Galbavy wrote:
> > To transfer 1Gb/s across 100ms I need to be prepared to buffer at least
> > 25MB of data. According to pricewatch, I can pick up a high density 512MB
>
> Why ?
>
> I am still waiting (after many years) for anyone to explain to me the
> issue of buffering. It appears to be completely unneccesary in a router.
Note that the previous example was about end to end systems achieving line
rate across a continent, nothing about routers was mentioned.
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