RE: iSCSI:draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-reqmts-00.txt

["KRUEGER,MARJORIE (HP-Roseville,ex1)" <marjorie_krueger@hp.com>]

Yup, thanks Matt, I missed that one.  Darned MSWord anyway...

Marjorie Krueger
Networked Storage Architecture
Hewlett-Packard Storage Organization
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Wakeley [mailto:matt_wakeley@agilent.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 1:02 PM
> To: Marjorie Krueger; IPS Reflector
> Subject: Re: iSCSI:draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-reqmts-00.txt
> 
> 
> Marjorie,
> 
> In the draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-reqmts-00.txt document you have 
> the following:
> 
> Consider that a network pipe at 10 Gbps . 200 msec holds 250 MB.
> [Assume land-based communication with a spot half way around the
> world at the equator. Ignore additional distance due to cable
> routing. Ignore repeater and switching delays; consider only a
> speed-of-light delay of 5 .sec / km. The circumference of the globe
> at the equator is approx. 40000 km (we need to consider round-trip
> delay to keep the pipe full). 10 Gb/sec . 40000 km . 5 .sec / km . B
> / 8b = 250 MB].
> 
> 
> There seem to be a lot of dots "." - were you perhaps using non-ascii
> characters that did not translate to ascii text?  For 
> example, I think the "5
> .sec / km" should be "5 nsec / km" ?
>