Re: Internet II is coming...

On Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:15:36 -0500 (CDT) Tim Salo wrote:

And, an OC-12c ATM circuit can provide nearly 540 Mbps of TCP data, after SONET, ATM, IP and TCP overheads.

Perhaps, I missed your point...

Explicit: 6meg is not very fast for an uplink speed for a whole ISP. Implicit: There seems to be a lot of: "It's ATM so it must be fast" going around. This conclusion does not follow. regards, fletcher