Internet speed report...

Hank Nussbacher hank at mail.iucc.ac.il
Tue Sep 7 06:56:07 UTC 2004


At 10:24 PM 06-09-04 +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

>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 :/

Ask Mentat:
http://www.mentat.com/tcp/tcpdata.html

-Hank


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>Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se




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