Re: links on the blink (fwd)
On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, Dave Mills wrote:
You'll be pleased to know that I, living in Canada, did have a consulting engagement in London for a couple of weeks via telnet and know just what that kind of loss rate is like.
Sooner or later, someone who says "wait ten years" will be right. I base my statement on the knowledge that cable ships are furiously plowing the oceans and girdling the planet with large bundles of fibre. There was also the Sprint announcement at Telecom 95 that they will be operating a globe girdling fully meshed backbone. No doubt several other companies will do the same. I believe that the only real lasting solution to packet loss problems is a combination of bandwidth and topology. When each backbone company uses high bandwidth fibre throughout and operates their own fully meshed topology that is interconnected not only at NAPS but at numerous two-way interchange points with other backbone providers, then we have a chance at getting lower packet loss rates. If nasty video protocols get deployed on the Internet then I could be wrong about the ten years. But if video migrates to a parallel globe-girdling ATM network then the Internet could be much better in ten years. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-542-4130 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com
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