Internet speed report...

Mon Sep 6 20:24:47 UTC 2004

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Simon Leinen wrote:

> As I said, it would be great if it were possible to build fast networks
> with modest buffers, and use end-to-end (TCP) improvements to fill the
> "needs" of the Petabyte/Internet2 Land Speed Record crowd.

I do believe that the high-speed (more than 10% of core network speed) TCP 
connection is almost exclusive to the research/academic community. 

I think you're on the right track in the thoughts to develop a new TCP
implementation solely for the application you describe above, and that it 
makes more economic sense to do this than to build with the quite a lot 
more expensive equipment with larger buffers.

I guess the cost of developing a tweaked TCP protocol would be in the 
neighbourhood of the cost of a couple of OC192 linecards for the GSR :/

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se