North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: connectivity outside the US
You can always have compartively small land lines to handle burst traffic. And the bulk of the data [lower priority] over the satellite links. [Similar to the way Oracle handles interactive video over cable.] -Deepak. On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote: > > High orbit, geosyncronous sattelites do not stand much of a chance against > > land lines as the latency on the links is quite high. [...] > > Long latency is not automatically bad. It is bad for interactive traffic, > but if the bandwidth is high enough to reduce congestion to zero, a large > latency doesn't hurt bulky transfers at all. Netnews, for example, could > be distributed via satellite without hurting anybody's lookers or feelers. >
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