RE: Towards Consensus on TCP Connections

[julian_satran@il.ibm.com]

Very good point. Yest we considered firewire and where impressed by the
SCSI serial
bus as one of the better SCSI mappings.  It has a great RDMA mechanism and
a lean
architecture.  Unfortunately it is not IP and the community of users is
more restricted.

Julo


Peter Johansson <PJohansson@acm.org> on 11/08/2000 05:36:26

Please respond to Peter Johansson <PJohansson@acm.org>

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Subject:  RE: Towards Consensus on TCP Connections




At 06:04 AM 8/10/00, Stephen Byan wrote:

>I believe the only low-cost link technology available to us is 1 Gb/s
>ethernet over cat5 UTP

Has the WG examined gigabit Serial Bus, IEEE P1394b?

I'm not suggesting you take the time and energy, now, to do this on the
reflector. I understand that there MIGHT be other considerations that
affect preferred medium choice for prototype implementations.

But if you take the time to independently inspect P1394b, I think you might
find its cost / performance characteristics suitable.




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