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Re: Internet Backbone Index

  • From: Ken Leland
  • Date: Thu Jul 10 16:44:08 1997 
Michael Dillon wrote:

> You aren't going to make latency disappear by replacing router hops with
> ATM switch hops. Those electrons still have to cross the continent.

em fields actually. Actual electron drift would be a real latency:)

Seriously, your point about layer2/layer3 switching/routing
tradeoffs is an excellent one. The transit time on long runs
has been so thoroughly discussed as a limiting factor that I'm surprised 
we have to make this point again. (Marketing stuff I guess -  My network
is better than your network cause I've got a bigger ...)

Or alternately shall we compare ...  , nah.

Ken Leland
kwl@monmouth.com