923 Mbps across the Ocean ...

Fri Mar 7 21:09:51 UTC 2003

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

> Production commercial networks need not apply, 'lest someone realize that 
> they blow away these speed records on a regular basis.

What kind of production environment needs a single TCP stream of data 
at 1 gigabit/s over a 150ms latency link? 

Just the fact that you need a ~20 megabyte TCP window size to achieve this
(feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here) seems kind of unusal to me.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se