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> Subject: Re: Internet II is coming... > Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 17:20:17 -0400 > From: Fletcher E Kittredge <[email protected]> > > On Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Michael Dillon wrote: > > 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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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