RE: An alternative to TCP (part 1)

[Tony Hain]

Larry Foore wrote:
> Is this really a problem?  How often would a single TCP session have
> allocated to itself an entire gigabit link?  I'm not aware of any end
> systems or apps that generate data at this rate (especially for any
extended
> length of time), much less accept it.  Maybe I'm looking at this wrong.

Just over too short a time window. 15 years ago the same was said for 2Mbps
rates when people started thinking about moving up to a whopping 45.  Think
10 years out and the question becomes 'who would be willing to settle for as
little as 1Gbps per connect?'

Tony