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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (494)	8/19/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: Kachina	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 626

Well, the point of that quick experiment was to get a quantitative reality check on the press release. They are going between locations with a dedicated fiber using Silkroad equipment. Approximately 1 second per 100 Megabytes transmitted. (~100MB/Sec) Comparing apples with bananas (fiber with ethernet 100) which nets out over TCP/IP as ~6.2 MB/Sec on a 100 Mb/sec bus. Since a fully saturated 100 Mb/sec ethernet should max out at ~11 MBytes per second, we are able to use about half the available bandwidth on a sustained basis. So - doing some quick figuring, it sounds like Silkroad had to demo an approximately 1 Gbit link. That's ten times Ethernet 100. Correct me if I am wrong, but can't this be done over regular fiber now? My guess also is that for this demo, Silkroad would have optimized their link layer protocol for file transfer instead of using something that eats up half the bandwidth for overhead. So that 1Gbit line to get 100 MBytes per second seems right, or in the ballpark. Is this really a big deal?