RE: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...

10 Mar 2003

      -----Original Message-----
From: Marshall Eubanks [mailto:tme@multicasttech.com]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:58 PM
To: David G. Andersen
Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...

BTW, when I did  VLBI for the Navy, we used to move literally tons of
tapes around the world
per month and achieved sustained bandwidths > 1 Gbps, albeit with
FED-EX, not routers.

Does this take into account the delay from encapsulating the tapes into a FED-EX packet and assigning the appropriate layer 1 header, then the queueing delays experienced while awaiting an open buffer on the next FED-EX truck?

Pete Templin
IP Network Engineer
TexLink Communications
(210) 892-4183
pete.templin@texlink.com