Cell Relay Archive

[guru@deltanet.com (Bill Schultz)]

In <3mv3kn$680@hpindda.cup.hp.com>, raj@cup.hp.com (Rick Jones) writes:
>Christopher Whyte (cwhyte@wellfleet.com) wrote:
>: Also, don't get caught up in the latency game.

>Can you expand on that a little? On the surface, it would seem to
>imply that latency is unimportant.

Whether or not latency is important depends entirely upon your application.
If you are basically using ATM to transfer huge computer files from one
machine to another, latency is probably not important.  On the other hand,
if you are doing live voice/video applications, latency is THE MOST IMPORTANT
measurement you can take on any given switch.

Obviously, the original poster comes from the "huge computer files" crowd.
Me, I'm from the voice/video crowd, and minimum latency is about the only thing
that is critical to me. ;-)

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