On Saturday, April 06, 1996 6:04 AM, Michael Dillon[SMTP:michael@memra.com] wrote: @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 But don't forget those "bit buckets" that are sitting there ready to handle the social engineering needs of the net...;-) ...I wonder who has to empty those bit buckets...???...that must be a messy job... -- Jim Fleming UNETY Systems, Inc. Naperville, IL 60563 e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net