[Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?

[Dave Froble]

On 12/15/2018 2:05 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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
>
>

So, are you saying, waiting for a chance at the "pipe" isn't much of a 
latency problem?

As I mentioned, I don't know much about these things.

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