RE: Towards Consensus on TCP Connections

[Michael Krause <krause@cup.hp.com>]

At 11:36 AM 8/14/00 -0700, Peter Johansson wrote:
>At 10:24 AM 8/14/00, Douglas Otis wrote:
>
>Partially correct, but applicable only to the DS-encoding over copper 
>specified by IEEE 1394-1995. The diversity of media specified by P1394b 
>(glass fibre, plastic fibre, UTP-5) provide point-to-point lengths in the 
>hundreds of meters. Since this is the same geographical range proposed by 
>interconnects such as Infiniband or gigabit Ethernet, it seems suited to 
>some commercial environments.

InfiniBand is 300 meters or less.  10 GbE will drive to 40 Km.

Mike