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Re: ATM Adaptors for HP 9000 Series Machines

  • From: raj@cup.hp.com (Rick Jones)
  • Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 04:23:07 -0500, 4 Apr 1995 08:41:33 GMT

Vernon Schryver (vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com) wrote:

[It's entirely too easy to attack marketing blurbs, just go to a web
 server with .com in its name to find examples:) so I've deleted that
 part - raj]

: How fast does it go, as measured by `ttcp` or `netperf`?

A fair question - after I see the product announcement of anyone's new
card, I know that I, individually, as the "shameless promoter of
netperf and the netperf database," :) will be encouraging the folks
developing/selling that card to submit netperf numbers to the database
at http://www.cup.hp.com/netperf/NetperfPage.html. That encouragement
is for *both* throughput (TCP_STREAM) *and* latency (TCP_RR) tests.

I have had some success in the area of ATM - some numbers from DEC,
and from HP (the EISA ATM Adaptor), but most other folks in .com
(nudge, nudge :) have been avoiding it.

Even today in the increasingly enlightened '90's, precious few folks
submit latency numbers - they seem to prefer to stick with throughput
numbers :(

rick jones