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- From: bantha.decnet.lockheed.com!young
- Subject: Another Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.164226.2031@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Reply-To: young@bantha.decnet.lockheed.com
- Sender: news@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (News)
- Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 16:42:26 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- This newsgroup continues to debate the interface between TCP/IP routers
- and ATM. Must be an important application.
-
- Now here is another problem which ATM might solve.
-
- As I look around this company I see hundreds of little cubic foot computers
- on each desktop, exactly alike, distributed geographically. Some companies
- literally have thousands of these things.
-
- Imagine that an account executive wants to read into his spread sheet the
- entire daily summary of mail orders spread over a number of distributed
- offices. Thus, he wants to extract a particular file located in each of
- a large set of desktop machines.
-
- Here are some restrictions to the solution:
-
- 1) This problem applies to about 80% of the USA's largest companies, who
- spend some 1 trillion dollars on solutions each year.
-
- 2) The only host address this account executive wants to deal with is
- "computers on the desktops of account clerks".
-
- 3) This company swears by twisted pair wiring, as do 80% of all users.
-
- 4) This applications requires low latency.
-
- 5) This customer would prefer to have his entire computer system composed
- of the distributed coordination of these small machines, he hates
- mini/maxi/mainframe computers.
-
- 6) This customer hates the hassle of maintaining servers, although he is
- willing to tolerate some file backup facilities.
-