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Re: is there a market for this?

  • From: Tim Salo
  • Date: Mon Jul 21 19:01:25 1997 
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:02:46 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: is there a market for this?
> 	[...]
> I was (somewhat) following a dicussion about high speed communications
> handled over the PCI bus, and there's a company that makes T1/T3-level
> serial cards for PC's, and from what they were saying, there's no way to
> reach even a full T3 worth of bandwidth on a PCI bus, so I think trying to
> push an OC-# connection over it might be pushing it a bit ;)

This doesn't sound right.

As some random data point, we have run ~70 Mbps (ttcp) using ATM as well as
Fast Ethernet between 133 MHz Pentiums.  I suspect that a faster Pentium
would fill an OC-3c ATM link.

-tjs