"Steven M. Bellovin" wrote:
>
> In message <003b01c003c6$3ffe9230$0a00000a@contactdish>, "Anthony Atkielski" wr
> ites:
> >> The telephone company has milliseconds to seconds
> >> to resolve an address into a route. The Internet
> >> has microseconds to nanoseconds to do so.
> >
> >Build faster hardware.
> >
> >
> We seem to be talking 5-6 orders of magnitude in speed here. Even
> Moore's Law doesn't help in that range.
>
Also, circuit setup needed for establishing routing labels requires at
least one round trip time (ignoring processing time), which is pretty
much a constant given geographic distance.
--
Henning Schulzrinne http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs
