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   Reconfiguring the space time matrix

   

   Kevin Joyce, Aug 1st, 2001 @ 3:32pm

   
   

   Not only is this a strange comment I'm wondering who did the calculation of a 4 second wait for Internet content. All 25 items can be "fetched" in the same millisecond and returned within milliseconds of receiving the request. All the 25 items can then be returned at the maximum possible speed. If we had a direct 2 megabit/s E1 to Europe it would take the latency (about 120ms round-trip) + 1 second for a 2 megabit page(with 600 items for that matter). The more abundant bandwidth becomes the closer Europe comes to receiving its web pages in only 120ms - each hop doesn't even add a millisecond in ideal conditions. Granted, the Internet is far from ideal conditions but we certainly don't need to change space-time to achieve "eye-blink" page loads even across 15,000 miles.

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   Circuit Switching

   

   bbay, Aug 2nd, 2001 @ 9:58pm

   
   

   I wonder what he means when he says that optics will be circuit-switched. The only thing a circuit-switched network is really useful for is as a foundation for your packet-switched network. I don't ever see this happening unless optical "circuits" become as abundant as TCP streams.

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