10 Apr
2002
10 Apr
'02
11:30 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:48:36PM +0100, Peter Galbavy wrote:
To transfer 1Gb/s across 100ms I need to be prepared to buffer at least 25MB of data. According to pricewatch, I can pick up a high density 512MB
Why ?
I am still waiting (after many years) for anyone to explain to me the issue of buffering. It appears to be completely unneccesary in a router.
Note that the previous example was about end to end systems achieving line rate across a continent, nothing about routers was mentioned. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)