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To: GuinnessGuy who wrote (10033)9/10/1997 12:43:00 AM
From: Bradley W. Price   of 29386
 
re: great speed debate

From the Gignite your Lan seminar, Kim Anderson included a chart
comparing end to end throughput for different size files

100BASET 622ATM FC1062

Effective
Data Rate 98 516 1040

Switch
Latency .071 .063 .015
(millisec)

Throughput
(MBPS) for
8 kbyte file 98 516 1040

Throughput
for 8 byte file 88 342 836

Caveats:

1) He used latency from leading vendor for the products.

2) I didn't include the FDDI, HIPPI, ATM122. Suffice to say, FC has sig advantages.

My understanding is that latency has a big affect on throughput as does frame efficiency.

Here are the equations that were cited:

Total transmission time in sec=

(file size in bytesX8)/1,000,000 Latency
------------------------------------------------ + -------------------
(frame efficiency%)(rate speed in MBPS) 1,000,000

EndtoEnd Throughput=

(file size in bytesx8)/1,000,000
---------------------------------------------
total transmission time in seconds

Hope this ends the great speed debate!

Brad
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