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From: mo@messy.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: NeFS protocol
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Date: 30 May 90 02:23:35 GMT
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What might well be called "Clark's Law" is that "As bandwidth
goes to infinity, latency becomes a constant 30 milliseconds."
This is the round-trip delay across the US on a 1 gigabit or faster
fibre-optic network.  You can't change that number unless you
change the speed of light, so there is NOTHING you can do about
latency except avoid round trips!!!

The fact that some application can successfully beat the life out
of a local ethernet cable is NOT a feature when considering 
*networks which scale with latency*, and in Clark's view,
and mine, them's the future of networking.   Everthing else
is essentially a multiprocessor by comparison.

	-Mike