Essentially they are what they say. 'Sustained data rate' reflects more or less the average data rate over a period of time. Different systems compute it slightly differently (different average periods) but it's essentially what you can expect to be the supported average amount of data going through at any given time. This would be when the cache is full and active, when all buffers are loaded, etc.
'Burst transfer rate' is the highest rate you can expect data to travel through the connection at any given time. For example, there may be a burst of data to begin a communications, but then it evens out to the 'sustained' rate. Many thanks! Bruce T. >>> Bruce T. Harvey AIX Network Engineer Mehdi Salehi <[email protected]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> 07/07/10 11:09 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject [ADSM-L] transfer rate terminology Hi, What do "sustained data rate" and "burst transfer rate" mean? I appreciate your explanation or any reference. Thanks The contents of this email are the property of PNC. If it was not addressed to you, you have no legal right to read it. If you think you received it in error, please notify the sender. Do not forward or copy without permission of the sender. This message may contain an advertisement of a product or service and thus may constitute a commercial electronic mail message under US Law. The postal address for PNC is 249 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. If you do not wish to receive any additional advertising or promotional messages from PNC at this e-mail address, click here to unsubscribe. https://pnc.p.delivery.net/m/u/pnc/uni/p.asp By unsubscribing to this message, you will be unsubscribed from all advertising or promotional messages from PNC. Removing your e-mail address from this mailing list will not affect your subscription to alerts, e-newsletters or account servicing e-mails.
