This should have been in comp.dcom.lans.ethernet - followups set accordingly.
Frans Grotepass <fmgrotep...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi all, > Sorry for abusing my membership to this forum for this question. > We are busy with building an embedded application that must retrieve > data very fast. The choice is to either have the data locally or go > to a central server(pool) that contains the data. > In evaluating the network option, I thought that the people here > could possibly help me with the expected network latency for a Gb > network via a switch. My gut feeling says that with increased load, > the switch will bundle the traffic to the different nodes more and > this will result in higher latency. "How long is a piece of string?" "It depends." An unloaded Gigabit Ethernet network might have quite low latency, but at the same time, a rather loaded network can have non-trivial latency. rick jones > Best regards, > Frans Grotepass -- a wide gulf separates "what if" from "if only" these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... :) feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions