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Re: Internet II is coming...

  • From: Kent W. England
  • Date: Thu Oct 10 15:20:58 1996 
At 05:20 PM 09-10-96 -0400, Fletcher E  Kittredge wrote:
>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?
>
>regards,
>fletcher
>
>
Even if a 10Mbps ATM circuit resulted in as little as a 6Mbps TCP payload,
then PPP would give you about 7.2Mbps, since ATM costs you about 12% over
PPP, given measured packet size distributions from FIX West.

Is this not slow enough to be a bottleneck?

--Kent

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