Hi Dave, I think that the consultant's rationale bears some merit, and the truths therein will require some adjustments. Isn't this the same dichotomy that exists between surfers who have 28.8s and those who surf using cable modem, when viewing multimedia content?
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In a related matter, I now recall once reading an account in BCR Magazine by an IBM staffer, about five years ago, who argued rather convincingly that the Internet Protocol would not scale to much higher speeds, over time. He argued that IP was designed around the timing constraints and other parameters that were associated with low speed analog lines, such as 300 bps, 1.2 kb/s lines, and eventually 9.6 lines, and that maybe IP would be able to scale up to T1 rates some day if you wanted to really push it, but not beyond. In other words, he argued that the Internet Protocol would have a very difficult time functioning beyond the T1 speed of ~1.5 Mb/s.
Well, guess what is now replacing IBM's SNA for bulk data transfer and other applications, as we speak... and at throughput rates measured into the gigabits per second range? The Internet Protocol is.
Regards, Frank Coluccio |
