Re: OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

[Gordon Smith]

On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, Eric Dahnke wrote:
> Someone will scold me for this post, but would appreciate any thoughts:
> 
> A T1 would be ~ 80% utilized passing 22,000msgs/hr if the average msg
> size was 23K.
> 
> Thx

You're not taking into account how the router will handle the traffic. You can
compress data at the router, which can give significant performance gains. e.g.
using stac compression on a Cisco  

Cheers,
-- Gordon Smith,  MCP, TCP
Network Administrator

Horticultural Automation Ltd.