[Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?

[Scott Dorsey]

Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
>Now, I'm not a network person.  I'm lucky if I can properly plug in an 
>RJ45 plug.  But, I'd ask, if you have more to push through a pipe than 
>the pipe can handle, why not more pipes?

That's basically what we have been doing for the past 40 years or so.  More
pipes, and fatter pipes, and that is why we have far more bandwidth today
than we had in the seventies.

But... we don't have any less latency.  In fact we have more latency since
store-and-forward systems now wind up having to store more data in-transit
in order to sort and filter, quite often.

Now, one of the things we do have are better ways to deal with latency.  The
VoIP people have much better echo cancellation than they used to have... so
although there may be a second lag time between the time you stop speaking
and the time the next person speaks, the effect is not as annoying as it might
be.

A lot of protocols have evolved to deal with higher latency.  We don't use
Berkeley r-protocols anymore.  But more pipes and fatter pipes don't solve
latency issues.
--scott


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