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To: BDR who wrote (30342)8/24/2000 3:40:52 AM
From: FaultLine  Read Replies (1) of 54805
 
where and how in the system is the data being held or stored until delivery?

I had a phone link to my ISP for many years. This ISP is connected directly to the MCI backbone. Now suppose I ask for a 4 MB video clip. Let's further suppose that the video server can send that whole video in a second or so. My ISP will buffer up the entire clip and proceed to bleed it out to me via my phone hookup at 56 KB <the horror, the horror...>

Now suppose my ISP were a couple of hops from the backbone and each hop down the chain runs at a lower bandwidth. Each "supplier" at each hop has to buffer the flow to its subordinate right on down to my house

Regards,
FaultLine
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