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- From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
- Subject: Re: The Low Cost Backbone
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.175345.24248@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Nov4.235918.16610@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:53:45 GMT
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- myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com writes:
- >More on the Lockheed switch, making it ATM comaptible:
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- >The probability of buffer overflow is replaced by the probability that
- >an out of sequence cell is still circulating in the backbone when
- >its neighbors are forwarded to the access node.
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- Cute. The transmission medium (fibre, etc.) IS the buffer.
- It's like a railroad with no yards, just switches, and the trains
- never stop until they reach their final destination.
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- If nodes are too close together, does this create problems?
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- John Nagle
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