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Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...

  • From: Stephen J. Wilcox
  • Date: Fri Mar 07 17:11:52 2003 
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, fingers wrote:

> 
> > > Production commercial networks need not apply, 'lest someone realize that
> > > they blow away these speed records on a regular basis.
> >
> > What kind of production environment needs a single TCP stream of data
> > at 1 gigabit/s over a 150ms latency link?
> 
> what kind of production highway sees the kinds of cars that reach the
> world land speed records?
> 
> why is it that nanog'ers seem to display such aggression at this type of
> thing? is it the article itself, the work the researchers are doing, or
> the fact that they had the bandwidth and hardware to do it with?

to be fair (as I was first to flame!) it is presented out of context in a poorly 
written and somewhat misleading news article

Steve