Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com> wrote:

Latency in a router is only somewhat important for most network applications but on some applications it has a very serious effect. If anyone would like to flame me, please do it in private email and I am sure I will find the time to get back to you :).

I'd like to point out that 1 ns of latency equivalent to 1 ft of wire (more-less), so 1 ms of latency is 190 miles of wire. It is not a serious delay, when compared with typical thousand-mile backbone links. (1 ms is a _lot_ of time to route a packet). --vadim