"Bill" <bill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> Low latency is where the performance appears to be, gig ethernet,
> and maybe 10g ethernet have too much latency as you scale
Almost everyone I've talked to did not know that GBE over copper
runs 4 120Mbaud lines and has to do a line turnaround, unlike
fibre where it is a real full duplex circuit. With a lot of
small packets, throughput tanks and latency blows out.
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