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Re: Bandwidth or Latency?

  • From: revillj1@ix.netcom.com (Joe Re Ville)
  • Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 21:18:20 -0500, 7 Apr 1995 02:15:47 GMT
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In <3l9tju$t7l@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> blight@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca 
(David C Blight) writes: 

>
>mahesh@furud.npac.syr.edu (Mahesh Subramanyan) writes:
>
>>Hi:
>
>>I was wondering what some of you have to say about this:
>
>>In case of low speed networks ( < 10 Mbps ), bandwidth dominates 
performance.
>>As we migrate to high speed networks, is it fair enough to say that it 
is 
>>latency that dominates performance?
>
>there was a paper about this in the April 1992 IEEE Communications 
Magazine
>"The Latency/Bandwidth Tradeoff in Gigabit Networks" by L. Kleinrock
>
>The paper talks about critical bandwidth which separates
>bandwidth limited networks from latency limited networks. The critical
>point is dependent upon what you are doing on the network
>
>Dave
>
>--
>David C Blight                               blight@ee.umanitoba.ca
>Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering  (204) 474-6758          
>University of Manitoba,Canada                (204) 261-4639 (FAX)
>http://www.ee.umanitoba.ca/~blight
>

How Does one become involved if they wanted to move to a new career in 
telecommnunication/Networking especially in high speed communications. I 
have been in the computer industry since 1995, but in System 
Analyst, DataBase Admin and Networking (Novell) Low speeds Token Ring..

Email Me at revillj@ix.netcom.com

Thanks Joe