> That is when conversations bearing sounds like mpscp and uftp begin and > then someone says "aw, screw it, just send them a disk".
LOL!!!! > Subject: RE: Broadband initiatives - impact to your network? > Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:46:37 -0700 > From: gbon...@seven.com > To: j...@feldman.org; ra...@psg.com > CC: nanog@nanog.org > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jonathan Feldman > > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 4:14 PM > > To: Randy Bush > > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > > Subject: Re: Broadband initiatives - impact to your network? > > > > I've never claimed to be particularly bright, but I do like to > > challenge assumptions. > > It isn't only the amount of bandwidth available but also in many cases > the protocols used to transmit the data. It takes smarter than the > average bear to figure out how to get data across a fat pipe over a long > distance at a high rate. TCP protocols are limited by the number of > packets allowed to be "in flight" according to how the stack is > configured. One might need to go to unorthodox or rather new methods to > use all the available bandwidth. > > There are many cases of someone being stymied as to why they can't even > get anywhere near 10 megabits of throughput on a GigE path from Los > Angeles to London using FTP, for example. In many cases the > responsibility of getting data from point A to point B is handled by > people who don't bring their network operators into the discussion where > problems like this can be pointed out to them. Often the first time the > enterprise network group hears about it is when someone complains that > the "fast pipe" to $continent is "slow" and therefore must be broken and > that is generally followed by the demand that it be fixed immediately if > that demand is not included in the first email. > > That is when conversations bearing sounds like mpscp and uftp begin and > then someone says "aw, screw it, just send them a disk". > > George > >