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Re: Internet II is coming...

  • From: Fletcher E Kittredge
  • Date: Mon Oct 14 11:34:06 1996 
On Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:15:36 -0500 (CDT)  Tim Salo wrote:
> And, an OC-12c ATM circuit can provide nearly 540 Mbps of TCP
> data, after SONET, ATM, IP and TCP overheads.
> 
> Perhaps, I missed your point...

Explicit: 6meg is not very fast for an uplink speed for a whole
  ISP.
Implicit: There seems to be a lot of: "It's ATM so it must be 
    fast" going around.  This conclusion does not follow.

regards,
fletcher 
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