On Sun, 17 Dec 2017, Matthias Tafelmeier wrote:
What I actually wanted to posit in relation to that is that one could
get sooner a c-cabable backbone sibling by marrying two ideas: the
airborne concept ongoing as outlined plus what NASA is planning to bring
about for the space backbone, e.g [1
This is an interesting topic to me. Over the past 5+ years, I've been
reading about GPON fiber aggregators(GPON chassis for lack of a proper
term) with 400Gb-1Tb/s of uplink, 1-2Tb/s line-cards, and enough GPON ports
for several thousand customers.
When my current ISP started rolling out fiber(all
I see this as a situation that really argues for systematic experiments, maybe
a paper you could aim towards SIGCOMM IMC. Beyond a certain point, you simply
need to pull out the stops and try to understand what the main obstacles to
determinism turn out to be in practice, for realistic examples
> Well, the trick of running RDMA side by side with TCP inside a datacenter
> using 2 Diffsrv classes would fit the broad theme of deterministic traffic
> classes, provided that you use RDMA in just the right way. You get the
> highest level of determinism for the reliable one-sided write case
> I tend not to care as much about how long it takes for things that do
> not need R/T deadlines as humans and as steering wheels do.
>
> Propigation delay, while ultimately bound by the speed of light, is also
> affected by the wires wrapping indirectly around the earth - much slower
> than would
