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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (166)	10/31/1999 11:13:00 PM
From: wonk	Read Replies (1) of 1782

Ray: ... I remain partial to those from the "Show Me" state (of mind). I haven't got the very latest figures, but the 47km demonstration in San Diego county announced 9/1/99 ran at 568Mbps. This rates a definite snore.... I remain a skeptic as well. However, I draw your attention to this comment by our thread host. ...BTW, I thought it was interesting that Mr. Kroll pointed out that an OC-12 interface [equivalent to a line rate of 622 Mb/s raw] was used on the SGI workstation. When SONET overhead is removed, and some of the other factors are taken into account, you are left with something like 500 Mb/s usable throughput capacity. These and other factors which I've enumerated above would account for the limited speed of the link, since you cannot drive the line faster than the I/O, itself, nor faster than the constraints imposed by other overhead sources of various origins. ... #reply-10992197 Yours in doubt, ww

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