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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: Three states for a binary bitAt 19:52 05/12/00, George Michaelson wrote: >If the marginal cost of 'overengineering' dropped radically, >so we could get to 100x in front of current end-to-end requirements, would people stop dicking with protocols to make them more efficient? In my experience, this is possible today in many countries. One lights long-haul glass with WDM that connects routers, then builds MANs and data centres using GigE (soon to be 10GigE) over glass at up to ~70km between sites. And it is a lot more affordable to over-engineer using Ethernet technology or something else simple, than to build something more complex and watch operations folks fail. Other folks in the ISP business will say roughly the same thing. In many countries, there is a ton of unlight fibre in the ground or in the process of being laid. 1/10 GigE is a very cost-effective way to over-engineer. It doesn't seem to stop people messing with micro-optimisations of protocols, however, to answer your other question. Cheers, Ran rja@inet.org
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