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Re: New Protocol Speeds Internet Packets

  • From: James Carlson
  • Date: Wed Sep 23 13:41:51 1998
  • Newsgroups: lists.nanog
[email protected] (Barry L James) writes:
> An article on Dynamic Transfer Mode and how circuit-switching technology
> will enhance packet-switching protocols. TIWAGOS.
> 
> http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/980921c.html

Uh, yeah.  A large grain of salt.  Without software, bandwidth
reservation is just silly.  (Even with it, it's fairly easy to prove
that channelization always increases queue depths and waiting times.
Oh, well.)

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