On 3/19/02 7:20 PM, "Joshua Yeidel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Entourage-Talkers, > > It is interesting to hear from a professor of logistics management. It > would be comforting to be able to understand the issue by applying simple > commodity analogies. > > Unfortunately, bandwidth (that is, telecom capacity) is not evenly > distributed in space. The "overbuilt" national infrastructure doesn't mean > much to my 56K modem which achieves only 33K on our rural telephone lines. But this isn't about overall capacity then (which is what Harry seemed to be concerned with). Instead you are now talking about your ability to access it. > Also, excess capacity is not evenly distributed in time. At any particular > moment, (say, the moment when _I_ am downloading a security update from > Microsoft), there may be a notable deficit of capacity; at 3 the following > morning, there may be more than plenty. > > So the "logistics" of bandwidth and its "wastability" may be hard to > generalize. Perhaps but Harry (and I may have misunderstood him) seemed to be referring to overall system capacity. A capacity which while finite is not even close to be used at the moment. You do bring up a good point about your ability to access it, but this is, IMO something slightly different (as I implied in my first post). My sending this email may clog up your box and take a minute to download on a slow connection, but it is only using a very tiny amount of the overall bandwidth available across the net. Even in HTML format. Cb Cbrady @ tulane.edu -- Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. -- G.K. CHESTERTON, The Man who was Thursday -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
