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Re: Ungodly packet loss rates

  • From: Tony Li
  • Date: Thu Oct 24 00:00:17 1996 
   >One can certainly make the argument that running large traffic
   >flows through shared interconnects is bad engineering 

   Yes, and I think the operative word is "shared" as in "shared
   access media".

Shared access to the media is not relevant.  Scalability of the shared
media is.  Private interconnects are simply more scalable than shared
interconnects.

I trust that an example is not necessary.

Tony
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