Subject: Re: Internet II is coming... Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 17:20:17 -0400 From: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@biddeford.com>

On Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Michael Dillon wrote:

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My ISP has a 10Mbps fibre ATM circuit to BCNet in Vancouver that was installed in Aplril 1995. From there it connects to CA*Net which has a T3 into MCI Seattle as well as links to the East where more T3's head south to MCI. The T3's were T1's until Sept 1995 at which point there was a small improvement in speed at times.

So a 10Mbps fiber ATM circuit translates, after the cell tax and packet stredding, to 6Mbps on a real link. Is this not slow enough to be a bottleneck?

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... -tjs