Re: Debian logo on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald Web site!!
On Fri, 24 May 2002 13:17, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 08:14:15PM +1000, Mark Purcell wrote:
> > The story it links to is the Internet2 speed record, which was
> > announced on debian-news two days ago.
> > http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/23/1022038451171.html
>
> It's an interesting article, but vague. How many PCs did they use
> at each end - just one?
>
> Also, the performance (401mbit/sec) is less than OC-12; you could
> easily find ISPs willing to provide you this service, at a price.
> So this doesn't seem that impressive.
It's 4 times faster than any LAN I've seen, it's impressive enough.
Also on a long distance connection you have the issue of latency which
reduces the throughput. A 500Mb/s network link covering that distance is
very unlikely to deliver 401Mb/s of sustained throughput. Even OC-12
connections when going through a few routers are unlikely to deliver 401Mb/s
sustained, a combination of latency and the occasional lost packet will
really slow things down.
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