North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: And we thought the text part of the Starr Report would be bad
> As you would expect, they only get the real experts to speak: > > "While Bergman was confident ABCNews.com's plans to stream the video in its > entirety would go fine, Martin Hall of the IP Multicast Initiative says > the real problems would occur at the user's > end of the line. > > The standard T1 connection of an Internet service provider handles a > maximum of 53 dialup connections pumping data to a user, he said, but a > 54th user could cause a major problem." > The number of dialups on a T1, the number of bytes in a framed ATM cell. I see a telco conspiracy here. (:-) for the humor impaied) jerry
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