begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:57:49PM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > >To the user, however, it's still a conversation as if over a > >circuit-switched network. They don't care, unless the packet-switched > >network degrades performance. > > Thus all of the talk lately about QoS and net neutrality.
Text-based communication doesn't seem noticably degraded. I'm good. :) > Ethernet was initially more convenient from a wiring standpoint, but, > nowadays, we would be better off with token ring/ATM for most of our > networking. I'd read somewhere[1] that much of the "internet backbone" uses ATM. TCP/IP gets turned into TCP/ATM or somesuch. > Especially for wireless systems. Not so sure for wireless. Ethernet has its roots in wireless. For stuff like streaming video and voip, most certainly, something like token-ring or ATM would certainly be preferable. [1] I can't remember where and I'm too sleepy to want to look it up, so take with large amounts of salt. -- Online gaming, too, would benefit from guaranteed-performance protocols. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
