Thus spake "Hank Nussbacher" <hank@att.net.il>
At 03:53 PM 07-03-03 -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
Production commercial networks need not apply, 'lest someone realize that they blow away these speed records on a regular basis.
Please document it so as to shame these I2 networks. Somehow, I doubt you will be able to.
Internet/2 is not interesting because it has big pipes; the public Internet has much bigger pipes and more of them. I/2 is interesting only because it has fewer users -- by two or three orders of magnitude -- and most/all of these users are connected by FastE or better. However, there is no need to waste funding buying uber-fast routers or GigE links around the globe just to learn how to tune stacks or apps. If high-speed TCP research is what you're doing, rig up a latency generator in your laboratory and do your tests that way, just like the TCPSAT folks. Spending millions of (probably taxpayer) dollars to win a meaningless record is unethical, IMHO. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking