On Sat, 6 Apr 1996, Wolfgang Henke wrote:
As Robert Moskovitz pointed out, even the growth in common used backbones speeds is not keeping up:
1. 56 kbps 2. 1.544 Mbps increase by 24 3. 44.736 Mbps increase by 28 4. 155.520 Mbps increase by merely 3
Just keeping in step with past growth patterns would require a step to OC-24c at 1244.15 Mbps now, but there are no routers which come even close to those speeds.
Even backbones are not backbones anymore. Sprint, MCI et al. operate meshes with multiple internal paths. If you have an average of 8 alternate paths of OC3c, then you get closer to a 24x multiple of DS3. Of course it's not really that simple, but I don't think that things are as bad as they look in your table above. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com