[Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?

[Dave Froble]

On 12/15/2018 3:48 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
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>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Dave Froble
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>> Cc: Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> An analogy ..
>
> 6 cars lined up on a 6 lane highway that is exactly 100 miles long -
> straight as an arrow with each car max speed = 200mph.
>
> The fastest any one car will make it to the end is 30mins (latency)
>
> Now, in this scenario, a total of 6 cars can make the trip in 30min's
> (bandwidth)
>
> Adding an additional 6 lanes to the highway to improve the bandwidth means a
> total of 12 cars can make it to the end in the same amount of time.
>
> However, the fastest any one car can make it to the end is still 30min's.

I totally understand that part Kerry, but, for that 6 lane highway, what 
happens when there are 12, 18, 24, or more cars?  Is that much of a 
problem, or do they just line up and go, and the small difference 
between cars isn't much of an issue?


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